EFT Depression Ch 6: Therapeutic Relationship Flashcards
What are the two essential foci of an optimal therapeutic relationship in EFT?
- the relationship as an affect-regulating bond characterized by the therapist’s presence and provision of empathy, positive regard, and congruence
- the facilitation of specific modes of emotional processing and experiencing at particular times
What are the the vitality aspects of the therapists’ emotional expression?
rhythm, cadence, and energy
Which three aspects of therapeutic work does the therapeutic alliance reflect?
- The bond
- extent of agreement on goals
- agreement on how to achieve goals
What are X ways to develop and maintain the therapeutic alliance?
- introducing clients to the process of therapy
- provision of a rationale for and agree- ment to engage in the specific processing tasks
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What is the experiencing self vs the reflective self?
experiencing self is allowing themselves to experience the emotion vs reflective is taking a step back from the emotion experience and reflecting on it
What are the 4 therapist attitudes?
- presence
- congru- ence
- empathy
- acceptance
What is Therapeutic presence ?
Therapeutic presence involves, among other qualities, being receptive and sensitive to the client’s moment-by-moment, changing expe- rience, being fully immersed in the moment, feeling a sense of expansion and spaciousness, and being with and for the client
To be present for cli- ents is to empty oneself, to clear a space so as to be able to listen clearly in the moment to the narratives and problems that clients bring.
What is congruance?
Congruence, or authenticity, can br broken into two separate components:
(a) awareness of one’s own internal experience and
(b) transparency, or the willingness to communicate to the other person what is going on within.
What are the communicative aspects of congruence?
the ability to translate intrapersonal experience into certain types of interpersonal responses that are consistent with certain implicit intentions
The deeper-level intentions include, in addition to valuing and un- derstanding the other, the intention to facilitate the other’s development, to be accepting and noncritical of the other, to confirm the other’s experience, to focus on the other’s strengths, and above all to do the other no harm.
transparency component of congruence
involves the ability not only to express what one truly feels, but also to express it in a way that is facilitative
What 3 factors do transparency skills depend on?
- therapist attitudes
- on certain processes such as facilitativeness, discipline, and comprehensiveness
- on the interpersonal stance of the therapist.
What is comprehensiveness as it relates to the transparency aspect of congruance?
The thera- pist expresses not only the central or focal aspect that is being felt, but also the metaexperience—what he or she feels about what he or she is feeling and communicating. Thus, a therapist who says that he or she feels irritated or bored is not saying all of it. Therapists need also to communicate their con- cern about this potentially hurting their clients and to express that they are communicating this out of a wish to clarify and improve a connection, not destroy it; this is the meaning of “saying all of it.”
What is Interpersonal stance?
Congruent interaction can be examined in terms of the interactional stance therapists take in relation to a circumplex grid of interpersonal interactions (Benjamin, 1996). This grid is based on the two major dimensions of autonomy—control and closeness- affiliation.
What are 5 examples of problems clients might face in becoming engaged in therapy?
- They feel ashamed.
- They are skeptical about the process.
- They are overly passive.
4- They have difficulty constructing narratives and accessing
memories. - They have difficulty exploring their feelings.
