According to Gottman what are the predictors of divorce called?
The Four Horsemen (Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling, and Contempt)
According to EFT; Anger and defensiveness are considered this type of emotion?
What is a secondary emotion?
The number of initial assessment sessions typically required to map out a couple's DEEP analysis.
What is 4?
The three styles of adult attachment are
Anxious/ambivalent; Avoidant; Secure
What is the second layer of the Sound Relationship House; refers to the amount of respect and affection partners feel for each other and are willing to express?
Fondness and Admiration System
Opening up to one another emotionally in nonconflict interactions is termed ____ ____. This fills the Emotional Bank Account.
turning toward
What is the main relationship styles/cycles in EFT that describes the interaction between the couple?
What is Pursue/Withdraw and/or Criticize/Defend?
The "D" in the IBCT assessment tool, "DEEP", stands for this
What are Differences
What are the 5 love languages?
The third stage of EFT.
What is consolidation?
What 2 things are covered in individual sessions?
family history and individual perceptions
These refer to the underlying emotions that drive relational behavior but are hardly acknowledged or talked about directly.
What are primary emotions?
This strategy involves revealing personal vulnerabilities to foster empathy and connection.
What is Empathetic Joining
A person with this style of adult attachment often worries that their partner doesn't love them. Sometimes they want to be with their partner so much that it scares the other person away.
Anxious/ambivalent
IBCT is based on the premise that behavioral change is best achieved after this has been established.
What is Emotional Acceptance
According to the Sound Relationship House what are the 2 supporting walls?
trust and committment
The first stage of EFT.
What is de-escalation?
A key strategy that helps partners accept that some differences are unchangeable and less distressing
What is Tolerance Building
An experiential intervention used to resolve inner conflicts by having a client externalize and dialogue between two opposing parts of themselves.
The 2-chair technique in EFT.
The most destructive one of the Four Horsemen according to Gottman; it implies superiority through sarcasm, eye-rolling, or hostile humor.
Contempt
What is the foundation of the Sound Relationship House; a cognitive understanding of who your partner is and what makes him/her happy; basic component of marital friendship?
Building Love Maps
The founder of attachment theory.
Who is John Bowlby?
The second "E" in DEEP stands for this, representing how the partners communicate, react, and respond to the stressors in their life.
External stressors
This type of couple, identified by Gottman, are highly dysfunctional pairs defined by a pattern of intense, unmanaged conflict, emotional disengagement, and severe loneliness. They often operate in a state of mutual resignation, characterized by frequent, bitter fighting. These relationships are the most divorce-prone, according to research.
Hostile-detached couples
The "P" in the DEEP acronym of IBCT stands for what?
Patterns of Communication