I. Acceptance as Engagement: Noticing, Allowing, and Being with Emotion

1. Mindfulness: It’s Not What You Think, Christopher Germer & Christian S. Chan

2. Understanding and Taking Advantage of Experiential Work in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Jennifer C. Plumb Vilardaga, Matthieu Villatte, & Steven C. Hayes

3. Compassion-Focused Therapy: An Introduction to Experiential Interventions for Cultivating Compassion, Dennis Tirch & Paul Gilbert

II. Exposure: Evoking and Staying with Difficult Emotions

4. Exposure in Experiential Context: Imaginal and In Vivo Approaches, Dean McKay & Rachel Ojserkis

5. Behavioral Experiments: Using Experiences to Test Beliefs, Susan Daflos, Rachel Lunt, & Maureen Whittal

6. Application of Exposure and Emotional Processing Theory to Depression: Exposure-Based Cognitive Therapy, Adele M. Hayes, C. Beth Ready, & Charlotte Yasinski

7. Creating Change through Focusing on Affect: Affect Phobia Therapy, Kristin A. R. Osborn, Pål G. Ulvenes, Bruce E. Wampold, & Leigh McCullough

III. Using Imagery to Connect with Emotions and Transform Maladaptive Schemas and Beliefs

8. Imagery Rescripting for Personality Disorders: Healing Early Maladaptive Schemas, Arnoud Arntz

9. Imagery Rescripting for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Arnoud Arntz

10. Experiential Exercises and Imagery Rescripting in Social Anxiety Disorder: New Perspectives on Changing Beliefs, Jennifer Wild & David M. Clark

IV. Emotion-Focused Approaches: Capturing and Enhancing In-Session Emotion as a Step toward Change

11. Integrating Emotion-Focused Therapy into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Nathan C. Thoma & Leslie S. Greenberg

12. Working with Modes in Schema Therapy, Eshkol Rafaeli, Offer Maurer, & Nathan C. Thoma

13. Emotional Schema Therapy, Robert L. Leahy

14. Emotion Regulation Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Chronic Anxiety and Recurring Depression, Mia Skytte O’Toole, Douglas S. Mennin, & David M. Fresco

V. Working with Interpersonal Process: Using Clients’ and Therapists’ Emotional Reactions to Each Other as Vehicles for Change

15. Relational Techniques in a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Context: “It's Bigger Than the Both of Us”, Jeremy D. Safran & Jessica Kraus

16. Adding an Interpersonal–Experiential Focus to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Thane M. Erickson, Michelle G. Newman, & Adam McGuire

17. Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Using Awareness, Courage, Love, and Behaviorism to Promote Change, Mavis Tsai, Andrew P. Fleming, Rick A. Cruz, Julia E. Hitch, & Robert J. Kohlenberg

Conclusion. Experiential Methods, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and Next Steps in Emotional Engagement in Treatments, Dean McKay & Nathan C. Thoma