The recommended antidote for criticism, one of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
What is the soft start up?
100
"Make Life's Dreams Come True" is one level on this approaches diagram.
What is the Gottman Method?
100
Emotions are viewed as powerful, informative, healthy and organizational by EFT therapists. Disowning emotions is viewed as this.
What is problematic?
200
Scott and Mary
Who is Susan Johnson (et al)?
200
Direct suggestions, positive connotations, and paradoxical interventions
What is Strategic Couple Therapy?
200
The most potent of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
What is Contempt?
200
This approach recommends "Waking from the Spell of Childhood" and achieving filial maturity.
What is Loving with the Brain in Mind (Mona Fishbane)?
200
The key to empathy is this, according to Mona Fishbane.
What is curiosity?
300
Debby and James
Who is Gottman?
300
Closing the Exits
What is Imago Relationship Therapy?
300
A middle or late stage intervention aimed at processing a fight or dysfunctional cycle
What is the "Aftermath of a regrettable incident" intervention?
300
Therapists from this approach invite the couple to interpret dream material and encourage associations when encountering transferences.
What is Object Relations Couple Therapy?
300
Partners can learn to self-regulate their emotionally reactive brains using imagery involving these 2 brain structures.
What are the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex?
400
Melinda and Richard and Beka and Moshe?
Who is Albert Brok?
400
Couple and Family Map Exercise charting flexibility and closeness
What is Prepare/Enrich?
400
Build love maps is the first level of Gottman's Sound Relationship House. This level is at the very top.
What is Create Shared Meaning?
400
An intervention used in this method asks couples to search through a conflict to identify the underlying values and meanings held by each partner.
What is the Gottman Method? (Dreams within Conflict)
400
Containing and holding are seen as necessary actions for these couple therapists who see couples as needing a safe place to express unpleasant and disturbing experiences and emotions.
What are object relation couple therapists?
500
Jeremy and Tina
Who are Les and Leslie Parrott?
500
In the middle stages: validating, tracking, evoking, heightening, conjecturing
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy?
500
Percentage of couple problems solved over time, according to longitudinal research.
What is 31%?
500
The shopping cart with the sticky wheels dream was used in the example by the author of this approach to couple therapy.
What is Cognitive Maps?
500
Asymmetric brain research finds that individuals with a higher activation profile in the prefrontal region of this hemisphere experience more negative affect, have higher levels of cortisol, and are more likely to engage in avoidance behavior.