Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

Question 1

General Knowledge

Answer 1

-Experiential Approach
-Emphasis on lived experience, integrative nature
-developed in the 80’s
-Post modern

Question 2

Primary Contributors

Answer 2

Susan Johnson
Leslie Greenberg

Question 3

Attachment

Answer 3

The individual’s basic need for trust and security, significantly influenced and developed throughout infancy and early childhood per the child’s relationship to his or her primary caregiver. Attachment in early childhood influences relationship styles throughout adulthood.

Question 4

Softening

Answer 4

This is displayed when a partner withdraws from defensiveness and or aggressiveness, and begins to open up to the emotional experience of his or her partner as opposed to remaining exclusively focused on his or her experience

Question 5

Primary Needs

Answer 5

Needs that are related to attachment and experienced through primary emotions

Question 6

Primary emotions

Answer 6

Theses are referred to underlying emotions that drove relational behavior but were hardly acknowledged or talked about directly. Primary emotions were the more fundamental emotional experiences such as, powerlessness, fear, loneliness ect.

Question 7

Secondary Emotions

Answer 7

These referred to the surface-level emotions intended to protect the primary emotions and reflect more upon the interaction than the individual. Secondary emotions are usually reactive in nature and resemble defensiveness, frustration, and anger

Question 8

Bonding

Answer 8

Attachment Theory’s term for the process in which individuals form a connection in a relationship that satisfies one’s primary need for attachment