Adaptive strategies deep dive deck Flashcards
How does Compressing Down create safety (2)?
- Refuge in inaction
- avoiding decisions or conflict
How does Compressing Down show up in body (4)?
- Heavy/down body (pressed shoulders, pelvis tucked)
- slow/deliberate mov., resists forward motion
- charged but tightly held
- hopeless energy
How does Compressing Down show up in relationships (3)?
- Loving, but can’t say “no” directly
- can be passive aggressive
- “yes, but…”
How does Fluid Motion create safety (1)?
- Uses manipulation /charm to be deceptive about intentions
How does Fluid Motion show up in body (4)?
- Body engaging
- hard to read
- fluid mov.
- might be seductive, graceful, friendly
How does Fluid Motion show up in relationships? 2
- Establishes intimacy on superficial basis
- unable to be authentic about desires
How does Holding In create safety (2)?
- Withdrawing
- splitting off into cognition/analyzing
How does Holding In show up in body? 5
- Tension in core/periphery (shield preventing stimuli in/out
- masklike face
- mechanical mov
- frozen energy, withdraws inward
- paradoxical breath
How does Holding In show up in relationships? 3
- Avoids closeness
- Suspicious
- avoidant and disorganized attachment
How does Inflated Posture create safety (1)?
- Using power/exert control by being deceptive about internal resources
How does Inflated Posture show up in body? 4
- Chest puffed out
- little energy lower body
- controlled mov.
- fight pose
How does Inflated Posture show up in relationships? 3
- Trouble being vulnerable/equal
- Intimidating
- easily wounded pride
How does Insistent seeking create safety (3)?
- Being dramatic
- trying to get noticed
- trying to get attention and acknowledged
How does Insistent seeking show up in body? 6
- Very expressive body
- lots of mov
- dramatic gestures
- scattered energy
- Reactive
- high arousal
How does Insistent seeking show up in relationships? 3
- Needs/wants attention, acknowledgment, understanding
- wants comforting
- keeps tracking the presence of the other
How does Kinetic Action create safety (2)?
- Refuge in action
- meeting goals
How does Kinetic Action show up in body? 3
- Well-coordinated body
- slight constant tension
- determined, quick, focused (not flow) movement
How does Kinetic Action show up in relationships? 5
- Restrained intimacy
- trouble letting go
- always seeking something better
- Dissatisfied
- serious
How does Pliant Collapse create safety (2)?
- Undue dependence on others - ensuring they never leave
- Being non-threatening
How does Pliant Collapse show up in body? 3
- Collapsed
- little energy
- under-boundaried
How does Pliant Collapse show up in relationships? 2
- wants to be taken care of
- appears needy and dependent
How does Sealing off create safety (2)?
- Doing things alone (being apart from unsafe dynamics)
- Meeting needs on one’s own by being self-supporting
How does Sealing off show up in body? 3
- Tension
- Antigravity
- over-boundaried
How does Sealing off show up in relationships? 2
- Trouble with interdependence
- isolates under stress
How does Spreading Out create safety (3)?
- Intensity
- ‘passion,’
- splitting off into emotions and extremes
How does Spreading Out show up in body? 4
- Mobilized for contact and vigilance
- distress to elicit contact and maintain intensity
- forward, frenetic, unfocused, uncontained movements
- flooded experience, high arousal
How does Spreading Out show up in relationships (4)?
- Demands intense contact
- deep connection
- distress to elicit contact and maintain intensity
- Anxious attachment
What are kind of boundary work is helpful for Compressing Down? 1
These clients do not set boundaries directly; work with actively setting boundaries.
What are kind of boundary work is helpful for Fluid Motion? 2
- Teach appropriate and direct boundaries;
- emphasize screening
- form boundaries that contain and define the authentic self
- help them use boundaries to come into relationship rather than using deception/manipulation to be able to do what he or she wants.
What are kind of boundary work is helpful for Holding In? 2
- Develop conscious boundaries; build boundaries
- Work with distance for safety
What are kind of boundary work is helpful for Insistent seeking? 1
Experiments to allow boundaries and distance and feel understood.
What are kind of boundary work is helpful for Kinetic Action? 1
- Help them set boundaries from real contact with self. As boundaries tend to reflect disconnection from deeper feelings and inner signals;
What are kind of boundary work is helpful for Pliant Collapse? 2
- Teach appropriate boundaries to mitigate under-bounded style.
- Emphasize appropriate screening