Emotional Schema Therapy

I. Emotional Schema Theory 1. The Social Construction of Emotion 2. Emotional Schema Therapy: General Considerations 3. A Model of Emotional Schemas II. Beginning Treatment 4. Initial Assessment and Interview 5. Socialization to the Emotional Schema Model III. Specific Interventions for Emotional Schemas 6. The Centrality of Validation 7. Comprehensibility, Duration, Control, Guilt/Shame, and Acceptance 8. Coping with Ambivalence 9. Linking Emotions to Values (and Virtues) IV. Social Emotions and Relationships 10. Jealousy 11. Envy 12. Emotional Schemas in Couple Relationships 13. Emotional Schemas and the Therapeutic Relationship Conclusions