Today I received
my copy of Counselling for Depression: A
Person-Centred and Experiential Approach to Practice (Sage, 2014). As far as I know, this is the first
book-length person-centred-experiential therapy treatment manual for a specific
client population. It is an outgrowth of
the humanistic therapy competences that I worked on in 2008-2009, integrating
person-centred and EFT, and provides important reading material to go along
with the CfD training now being carried out in England and Wales.
I co-wrote
chapter 2, with Andy Hill; I also put together one of the Appendices from my
meta-analysis data and helped construct the competence rating scale (PCEPS)
reproduced in the last chapter. For
background for doing the book, Pete Sanders came up to Glasgow to do EFT Level
1 18 months ago.
The book is a
handy reference for PCE therapists and counselors working with depressed
clients, and I think also helps legitimize the use of a humanistic therapy for
depression. There is a lot of EFT in it,
but without, as Pete Sanders says, “furniture”.
This book, and
the big PRACTICED trial currently running in Sheffield, have inspired me to return
the EFT’s roots in the work we carried out from 1985 to 1992 on developing it
as an approach for working with depressed clients. In the process I’ve developed my own take on
CfD and EFT for depression. Some of my
thinking on this can be found under the CfD and EFT Masterclass sections on the
following page: https://sites.google.com/site/eftnetworkuk/files-and-resources
This material includes ideas about depression as “stuckness”, how to help therapists and clients get unstuck, and alternative ways of working
with Self-Criticism and Unresolved Relationships that don’t involve chairwork. There are also useful formulations, such as “Depression is a message that I send myself
that something is broken in my life”.
Regardless,
Sanders & Hill’s new book is an excellent to start looking at how PCE
therapy can be carried out with depressed clients in a more focused and
responsive manner. Hopefully, it will
also generate additional interest in EFT as well.
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