Experiential Flashcards
Overall experiential idea of why problems exist
Emotional expression is blocked so people cannot authentically be themselves
Overall goal of experiential models
Unblock honest emotional expression in families and open individual to their inner experience helping them be more fully human.
- Develop a heightened sense of competence well-being, and self-esteem
Who is associated with Symbolic Experiential?
Carl Whitaker
Who is associated with the Human Validation Process Model?
Virginia Satir
Who is associated with EFT
Les Greenberg and Sue Johnson
What is the parent imago and what theory is it associated with?
Therapist’s role to the client, symbolic experiential
What is the interactional metaphor and what theory is it associated with?
therapist-client symbolic relationship, symbolic experiential
What is the battle for structure and who must win it?
Therapist decides who should attend and assumes the position as leader - therapist must win
What is the battle for initiative and who must win it?
Therapist communicates responsibility for treatment belongs to the family - Family must win
Goal of Symbolic Experiential
Establish family members’ sense of belongingness and provide freedom to individuate
First 5 steps of treatment in Symbolic Experiential
- Increase stress level
- Development of family nationalism
- Expand relationships with extended family
- Expand relationships to culture and community
- Develop sense of family boundaries
Second 5 steps of treatment in Symbolic Experiential
- Separate generations
- Family learns to play
- Develop a we-they, therapist-family split
- Explode myth o individuality
- Each member should be more him/herslef
What is the Primary Triad and what theory is it associated with?
Self, Context, Other - Satir
Within the Primary Triad what family rules do children learn (4)?
Rules about:
- Safety
- Their bodies
- Their lovability
- Their ability to love
What is congruence in Satir’s model?
When people act in ways that line up with what they feel and say.
What are the 5 Survival Stances?
- Placating
- Avoiding
- Blaming
- Computing (Superreasonable)
- Leveling (Irrelevent)
Adopt stances to protect their self-worth from threats
Describe the Placating Stance
Hides vulnerability by attempting to please others. Feels they are no good, but by doing what is expected of them they will not be rejected.
Describe the Blaming Stance
Hides vulnerability by attempting to control others and by disagreeing indiscriminately, thus giving themselves a sense of importance despite their inner feelings of loneliness and failure
Describe the Superreasonable Stance
Every aspect of living becomes intellectual experience that bypasses inner self and ensures anesthesia of feelings. Uninvolvment and control -> internal feeling is vulnerability
Describe the Irrelevant Stance
Handles stress by pretending it’s not there. Focuses elsewhere, away from present context and away from feelings. Internally, uncared for and alienated.
What theory does EFT mainly draw from?
Attachment Theory
Goals of EFT (3)
- Expand and re-organize key emotional responses between partners (identification of primary and secondary emotions)
- Create secure bond between partners
- Shift interactions between partners
Theory of dysfunction in EFT
Partners process and enact attachment needs in a context of perceived hanger and insecurity that primes their distress.
Describe the stance of an EFT therapist
Process consultant - therapist engagement in alliance with each client (safe haven for both)
Steps 1-4 of EFT
Assessment and de-escalation of problematic interactional cycles
Steps 5-7 of EFT
Creation of specific change events where interactional positions shift and new bonding experiences occur
Steps 8-9 of EFT
Consolidation of change and integration of changes in to everyday life
Who is associated with Internal Family Systems?
Richard (Dick) Schwartz
What modalities influenced IFS?
Structural, Strategic, Satir, and Bowen
Goal of therapy in IFS
Help client differentiate his/her core SELF and heal subparts
Family members can have SELF to SELF interactions
What causes resistance in IFS?
Activation of sub-roles/parts
Describe the EXILE
contain pain, fear, and sadness from past hurtful feelings
Describe the MANAGERS
Try to keep the exiles, and the feelings they contain, out of consciousness
Describe the FIREFIGHTERS
Used when managers fail - douse painful emotions with substances such as food, drugs, or alcohol, or distract with sex, self-mutilation, or obsessive activity
What is RISSSC?
Expression of empathy in EFT
R: Repeat I: Images S: Simple S: Slow S: Soft C: Client's Words
