CEWE: Chapter 9: Working with Needs

Question 1

Describe the process of how a focus on needs can change emotion.

Answer 1

Maladaptive emotions have core needs embeded within them (e.g, fear -> safety)

If the client can be helped to feel deserving of their previously unmet needs, more adpative emotions related to these needs are generated

Question 2

what is the need embeded within shame?

Answer 2

validation

Question 3

What is the need embded within sadness?

Answer 3

connection

Question 4

Does Les consider needs innate?

Answer 4

No

Question 5

What are the two major inborn processes that are involved in developing needs?

Answer 5

1. Affect regulation
2. Meaning creation

Question 6

What are the two systems that exist in addition to the emotion system?

Answer 6

1. Presymbolic affect regulation system to seek what feels good for wellbeing and avoid what feels bad
2. Narrative construction process that creates meaning

Question 7

What are the two systems therapists work with in therapy?

Answer 7

1. Presymbolic affect regulation system to seek what feels good for wellbeing and avoid what feels bad
2. Narrative construction process that creates meaning

Question 8

What are the 3 most commonly violated/not responded to needs that cause emotional suffering?

Answer 8

1. Need to be Connected and Understood -> lacking this produces sad loneliness and anxious insecurity
2. Need to be Respected, Acknowledged as Valuable Appreciated, Validated, in what someone does and who they are -> lacking this produces shame
3. Need for Safety and Security -> lakcing this produces fear

Question 9

In EFT what are the 5 things that lead to dysfunction/problems?

Answer 9

1. Disclaiming emotion
2. Preservation of certain past emotional responses in the present
3. Lack of emotional awareness
4. Emotion dysregulation
5. Faulty meaning creation/Narrative construction