This workshop will review principles of emotional intelligence abilities as they apply to clinical settings. While the focus will be predominantly on counseling and psychotherapy approaches application of these EI principles can be extended to various therapy methods as used in medical, educational or coaching practices. EI concepts and processes will be organized around three domains forming a model that is labeled ART.
(1) Attention includes the attention, perception & responsiveness to emotional cues,
(2) Regulation involves the regulation & management of emotional states and
(3) Transformation considers action potentials within emotional states that, through clinical interventions, can lead toward emotional transformations.
Research on emotions in psychotherapy will be briefly reviewed. Experiential activities, discussions and case studies will be used to illustrate how emotions are central to clinical processes and how therapists can work from an EI perspective. There will be a focus on how clinical work involves processes of creativity, imagination and metaphors in facilitating change and transformation.