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Emotion Focused Therapy
Family therapy
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Psychology
Graduate
08/02/2017

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The two persons of EFT?
Definition
Susan Johnson
Leslie Greenberg
Term
EFT research grew out of research that studied couples in therapy and the process by which they accomplished what goal?
Definition
Creating successful repair in their relationship bond
Term
EFT accepts Gottman's view of two primary couple characteristics: What are they (2)?
Definition
1) Flooding by negative emotions
2) Trapped in narrow, constricting interactions
Term
What assumption did Bowlby take from Darwin, applied to attachment theory?
Definition
Natural selection favors successful survival strategies, close relationships are KEY to survival
Term
EFT perspective on close relationships (3):
Definition
1) "Nurturant solace" is protective factor against disease
2) Emotional isolation is more dangerous than smoking
3) Nurturant relationships are KEY source of oxytocin in adults
Term
Attachment theory proposes what significant view about relationships (4):
Definition
1) Seeking and maintaining contact with significant other is innate
2) Fear of isolation is inherently traumatizing
3) Life stress automatically activates attachment responses
4) Separation from s.o. creates predictable stress reactions that are mostly automatic
Term
Johnson reports that emotional separation triggers what area of the brain?
Definition
Amygdala, leading to stress response
Term
In EFT, emotion is most commonly understood as (3):
Definition
1) Generally healthy and adaptive
2) Pulling or triggering responses from others
3) Needing to be developed and differentiated
Term
EFT- Problems with emotions are usually enacted under what two conditions?
Definition
1) Context of vulnerability 2) Perceived danger/threat
Term
Attachment theory says that humans build their "internal working model of self and other" through what primary activity?
Definition
Emotional Communication
Term
EFT integrates what two important psychotherapy approaches?
Definition
Systemic
Experiential
Term
3 Stages of EFT
Definition
1) De-escalating
2) Changing Interactional Positions
3) Consolidation and Integration
Term
3 Key Shifts of EFT
Definition
1) Negative cycle de-escalation
2) Withdrawer engagement
3) Blamer softening
Term
The "heart of change" in EFT includes: (2)
Definition
1) Unfolding key emotions
2) Enacting new responses from partner
Term
What are the two basic "key moments of bonding" in EFT?
Definition
1) One partner reaching for support
2) Other partner is responsive
Term
What are the EFT incorporated therapeutic priorities from individual and relationship theories? (4)
Definition
1) Intrapsychic focus on how individuals process experience
2) the "within and between" of couples
3) Interpersonal focus on interaction patterns and cycles
4) key attachment-oriented emotional responses
Term
EFT sees sexual problems as: (2)
Definition
1) Loss of connection with partner
2) "the canary in the mine" as separation distress
Term
EFT thoughts about touch: (5)
Definition
1) the skin is the human's largest sense organ
2) skin-to-skin is the language of sex and attachment
3) lack of touch slows brain development in children
4) touch is vital from birth to death
5) Males are vulnerable to "touch hunger"
Term
Partners have two specific ways of protecting self in relationship:
Definition
1) shut down
2) Ramp up
Term
Basic relationship patterns:
1) Find the Bad Guy
2) Protest Polka
3) Freeze and Flee
Definition
1) mutual blame/acuse-acuse
2) demand-withdraw/criticize-defend
3) withdraw/withdraw
Term
What are the 7 Universal Emotions of EFT?
Definition
Anger, Fear, Surprise, Joy, Shame, Hurt, Sadness
Term
What happens to the brain in each stage?:
Appraisal
Physiological Arousal
Reappraisal
Action Tendency
Definition
Appraisal- rapid amygdala activation
Physiological Arousal- change of heart rate, blood flow, hormones, muscle readiness
Reappraisal- neocortex involves cognitively
Action Tendency- initial whole-body response w/ available information
Term
Emotions can be differentiated into 3 categories (define):
Primary
Secondary
Instrumental Emotion
Definition
Primary- here and now limbic response
Secondary- Initial coping response to limbic arousal
Affective display with purpose to change other
Term
EFT perspective on how to engage therapy: (4)
Definition
1) Emotion evoked as vividly as possible, through therapist's effort to create a safe working distance
2) Engaging emotion and exploring the not-yet-clear edges
3) Discovery of new emotional experience
4) Emotion is expanded and restructured from bottom up, not top down (elevator!)
Term
3 EFT "tasks" for therapeutic intervention
Definition
1) Foster safe therapeutic alliance (track and reflect)
2) Accessing, unfolding, expanding emotional response in attachment
3) Choreographing new response (dance)
Term
What is the best goal of EFT therapeutic alliance?
Definition
To resonate with client's own immediate "felt sense" of experience
Term
EFT believes what about clients?
Definition
They are valid, honored and prized, even when certain behaviors are provoked
Term
What is the greatest challenge of EFT therapeutic alliance?
Definition
Validating each partner's felt-sense without invalidating the other
Term
Which does the therapist engage first? Primary or secondary emotion?
Definition
Secondary- which is automatic and repeatedly expressed in their negative cycle.
Term
The 5 "skills" used in EFT therapy regarding primary/secondary emotion:
Definition
1) Make implicit secondary emotions explicit
2) Place secondary emotions in context of negative cycle
3) Equally validate each secondary emotion
4) focus on primary attachment emotions
5) Deepen client's engagement with primary underlying emotion
Term
How does the EFT therapist "track and reflect" the couple's interaction? (4)
Definition
1) Pause
2) Replay the interaction
3) Further describe the negative cycle
4) Provide summary of dance
Term
EFT- 3 Actions to solidify the dance (second order change)
Definition
1) Enact present positions to expand truth 2) "catch" client in new way of dancing 3) Turn new patterns into new responses
Term
4 most common reframes of EFT
Definition
1) Anger is an attachment protest
2) Withdrawal is fear
3) Pursuit/blame is fighting for relationship
4) Negative cycle is couple's shared enemy
Term
EFT- 4 steps of Stage One
Definition
1) Create Alliance 2) Identify Negative Cycle 3) Access primary emotions 4) Reframe problem as negative cycle
Term
What are 3 goals of EFT assessment in Steps 1 and 2?
Definition
1) Track the negative interaction
2) Enter each partner's "felt sense"
3) Hypothesize attachment needs
Term
What is the couple watching for in Step 2?
Definition
How the responses of each partner contribute to the pattern
Term
What is the primary contrainment of EFT?
Definition
When exposing vulnerability places a partner at risk
Term
What are the most important outcomes of the first sessions in EFT? (2)
Definition
1) both partners feel understood and acknowledged by therapist
2) A sense of HOPE and ability to change dead-end fights and cycles
Term
Step 3- why is it important to ACCESS the "music" underlying the dance? (2)
Definition
1) The emotions are usually unacknowledged
2) The emotions are not usually included in interactions
Term
What is the first focus for accessing underlying emotion in Stage 3?
Definition
To better relate to the specific position each partner takes in the relationship
Term
What are the 4 couple FEARS in the 9-step process?
Definition
1) Facing one's own self-criticism
2) Revealing aspects of self that are uncomfortable
3) Anticipating partner's negative response to own disclosure
4) Moving toward unpredictable change
Term
What 2 specific actions must the therapist be ready to encounter in Step 3 of EFT?
Definition
1) Rapid shift focus from accessing one partner to the other 2) Helping partner process own negative response to other's disclosure
Term
What are the EFT 3 reframes of Step 4?
Definition
1) Seeing problematic behaviors as positions in negative cycle 2) Reframing negative cycle as enemy 3) Viewing each response as underlying emotion
Term
EFT- What is the Step 4 change? (term and definition)
Definition
De-escalation: the couple can describe their interaction and how they manage it
Term
2 signs that a "raw spot" has been touched?
Definition
1) rapid shift in emotion in interaction
2) reaction to another that seems out of proportion to context
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