Assumptions
Which framework assumes emotion as a target and agent of change?
Emotionally Focused Therapy
What are the four horsemen? Define them.
1.) Blame
2.) Contempt
3.) Defensiveness
4.) Stonewalling
Examining the chain of events that leads
to ineffective behaviors, as well as the
consequences of those behaviors that
may be making it hard to change them is called what?
A chain analysis (DBT)
The primary goal of high-conflict or IPV cases is...
Establish safety
Cognitive restructuring refers to which couples therapy framework?
Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy
Observation of interactions and patterns rather than specific details of a problem.
Process
A couple’s issues often reflect patterns and dynamics present in their families of origin according to which theoretical framework?
Bowen Family Systems
Acceptance strategies in IBCT do what?
Change strategies?
1.) Help partners develop empathy, compassion, and understanding toward each other’s differences.
2.) Encourages partners to increase positive interactions by deliberately engaging in actions that their partner values.
In EFT, pursuer-withdrawer patterns in a couple reflect what?
Attachment needs
What are the primary goals of an infidelity case if the couple decides to stay together?
1.) Rebuild trust
2.) Redefine the relationship
3.) Forgiveness
This technique allows therapists to examine their own reactions as a form of communication that emanates from the couple.
Countertransference (Object Relations)
Although couples learn and apply new skills to their relationship dynamic and create change, they may still experience relapse. What might you discuss with them towards the end of treatment?
1.) Remind them of their new skills
2.) Discuss possible future conflicts and management
3.) Normalize relapse
Change is important, but acceptance is crucial according to which framework?
Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT)
When a couple pulls in a third party to manage the emotional conflict or tension.
In CBCT, which assessment tool assesses relationship satisfaction of intact (married, cohabiting or dating) couples?
Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI)
In CBCT, therapists can help modify maladaptive behavioral patterns by...
Increasing positive interactions and decreasing negative interactions such as criticism or defensiveness.
A therapist wanting to explore the emotional reactivity in one partner’s family (e.g., quick escalation of anger) and compare it with the other partner’s family (e.g., emotional withdrawal) to understand how these patterns play out in their relationship will use what tool?
Genogram
A partner learning to appreciate their partner’s need for alone time instead of interpreting it as rejection is an example of...
Tolerance building (IBCT)
Positive sentiment override and friendship base are needed for communication and affect change according to which couple therapy framework?
Gottman Method
Communication training aligns with which couples therapy framework?
Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy
A missing-links analysis...
Helps identify what got in the way of
doing things you needed or hoped to do,
things you agreed to do, or things others
expected you to do.
Helping partners recognize and break repetitive patterns from their family of origin that affect their relationship is a goal of...
Bowen Family Systems
Asking a client, "Could there be a different perspective here?" is what kind of question?
Socratic Question (CBCT)
Bonus: Which kind?
Healthy relationships require partners to balance closeness and autonomy without becoming overly emotionally reactive or emotionally distant.
What has the couple achieved* if this occurs?
Differentiation of Self
The assertion that there is an objective reality, but it is not accessible to human beings, is a pillar of which framework?
Integrative Problem-Centered Metaframeworks
What kind of emotions provide insight into our fundamental needs, desires, and experiences?
Primary emotions (EFT)
In the Gottman Method, love maps can provide information on...
Each partner's inner world.
Fostering the creation of a secure bond between partners through the creation of new interactional events that redefine the relationship aligns with which framework?
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Dreams-within-conflict helps couples to...
Be more open for dialogue in order to successfully manage perpetual issues within the relationship.
While a couple is discussing their weekend plans, one partner makes the statement:
“I’d really love to go hiking, but I want to hear what you’d like to do, too. Maybe we can find a way to do both or compromise.”
What does the Gottman Method term this as?
Accepting influence
The core aspects of the self are formed through early relational experiences is aligned with which framework?
Object Relations Couple Therapy
The concept that most relationship problems are more clearly understood when the stances and defenses formed in childhood are explored aligns with which framework?
Object Relations Couple Therapy
In IBCT, identifying patterns of interaction as well as what maintains the conflict in a couple dynamic is called what?
Functional Analysis
According to the Gottman Method, what does the 5:1 ratio aim for?
For every one (1) negative interaction, there should be five (5) daily positive ones.
“When you say you feel angry, can you help me understand what happens inside you just before you feel that anger? Is there a softer feeling underneath?”
and
“What’s the hardest part of this experience for you?”
are kinds of questions in EFT?
Evocative questions - allows for a deepening of the client's emotional experiences
According to EFT, what indicates change in a couple system?
New, corrective emotional experiences in the couple dynamic