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The first stage of EFT.
What is de-escalation?
Attachment theory's term for the process in which individuals form a connection in a relationship that satisfies one's primary need for attachment.
What is "bonding"?
The founders of (EFT) Emotionally Focused Family Therapy.
Who are Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg?
The second stage of EFT.
What is restructuring?
The third stage of EFT.
What is consolidation?
The goal of EFT.
What is...
"The goal of EFT is to create a more secure emotional bond." - Sue Johnson
Anger and defensiveness are considered this type of emotion.
What is a secondary emotion?
EFT integrates these 3 theories.
What are attachment, experiential, and systems theories.
Distress signifies this type of threat.
What is an attachment threat?
Bowlby describes this as an individual's basic need for trust and security, significantly influenced and developed throughout infancy and early childhood per the child related to his or her primary caregiver.
What is "attachment"?
Attachments are created by these 2 facets.
What are safe havens and a secure base?
The most common modality that EFT is used for.
What are couples?
Change happens through this.
What is creating new experiences?
The founder of attachment theory.
Who is John Bowlby?
This describes when a therapist uses gentle open-ended prompts to help clients access and clarify emotional experiences/emotions
What is evocative responding
"Needs" that are related to attachment and experienced through the more vulnerable emotions.
What are "primary needs"?
These refer to the surface level emotions designed to protect the more vulnerable emotions.
What are "secondary emotions"?
Cycles are the problem-they maintain __________.
What is distress?
EFT's major "agent of change." In other words, what do EFT therapists target?
What is emotion?
This is displayed when a therapist intentionally intensifies an emotional experience of a client so they can feel it more clearly and access underlying attachment needs.
What is heightening?
Emotions aren't the problem...
What is "unprocessed emotions are?
The relationship styles/cycles in EFT.
What is Pursue/Withdraw and/or Criticize/Defend?
EFT for families can involve or discuss these.
What are parent/child attachment, emotion coaching, and family system repair?
These refer to the underlying emotions that drive relational behavior but are hardly acknowledged or talked about directly.
What are primary emotions?
Fear, sadness, and shame are considered this type of emotion.
What is primary?