EFT Theory Flashcards

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What is the purpose of EFT?

A

Help clients form new emotion schematic memories that lead to new responses and to the narrative consolidation of these changes

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What is self-organization?

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the experiential state of the self at any one moment

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What is Schematically based self-organization?

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the feeling of who one is

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What is Narrative identity? How does it emerge?

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A level of organization of self that is higher than the schematically based self-organization (i.e., the feeling of who one is)

Emerges out of the dialectic of experiencing and explaining

Through the integration of experience and various self representations into a coherent story or narrative

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How is the narrative self created?

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Through a dialectical process

  • basic elements of biological and physiological phenomena - - these are filtered through emotion schemes, which are synthesized
  • this leads an experience of self-organization (one of many possibilities. E.g., vulnerable, open, withdrawn, good humored)
  • self-organization is influenced by cognitive processing (e.g., attention, executive processes)
  • This self organization results in a bodily self sense of who one is (bodily felt referent)
  • consicous experience results when this implicit feeling is attended to and symbolized explicity
  • When self-organization is both symbolized and reflected on, meaning is created
  • this symbolization involved learning from culture
  • meaning, narrative, and identity are constructed by reflecting on experience, making sense of it, and explaining it to ones self
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Within the EFT theory, what are the mechanisms through which dysfunction can arise? (4)

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  1. Meaning creation: through the particular meanings and narrative created
  2. Disclaimed or unsymbolized experience: through incongruence between what is reflectively symbolzied and the range of experienced possibilities
  3. Learning: through the type of experience that is generated by the schematic synthesis formed on the basis of prior experience
  4. Conflict and splits: from problematic shifts between plurality of self-organizations or lack of fit or integration between them
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