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Experiential Flashcards

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Overall experiential idea of why problems exist

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Emotional expression is blocked so people cannot authentically be themselves

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Overall goal of experiential models

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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

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Who is associated with Symbolic Experiential?

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Carl Whitaker

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Who is associated with the Human Validation Process Model?

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Virginia Satir

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Who is associated with EFT

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Les Greenberg and Sue Johnson

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What is the parent imago and what theory is it associated with?

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Therapist’s role to the client, symbolic experiential

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What is the interactional metaphor and what theory is it associated with?

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therapist-client symbolic relationship, symbolic experiential

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What is the battle for structure and who must win it?

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Therapist decides who should attend and assumes the position as leader - therapist must win

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What is the battle for initiative and who must win it?

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Therapist communicates responsibility for treatment belongs to the family - Family must win

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Goal of Symbolic Experiential

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Establish family members’ sense of belongingness and provide freedom to individuate

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First 5 steps of treatment in Symbolic Experiential

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  1. Increase stress level
  2. Development of family nationalism
  3. Expand relationships with extended family
  4. Expand relationships to culture and community
  5. Develop sense of family boundaries
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Second 5 steps of treatment in Symbolic Experiential

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  1. Separate generations
  2. Family learns to play
  3. Develop a we-they, therapist-family split
  4. Explode myth o individuality
  5. Each member should be more him/herslef
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What is the Primary Triad and what theory is it associated with?

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Self, Context, Other - Satir

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Within the Primary Triad what family rules do children learn (4)?

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Rules about:

  1. Safety
  2. Their bodies
  3. Their lovability
  4. Their ability to love
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What is congruence in Satir’s model?

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When people act in ways that line up with what they feel and say.

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What are the 5 Survival Stances?

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  1. Placating
  2. Avoiding
  3. Blaming
  4. Computing (Superreasonable)
  5. Leveling (Irrelevent)

Adopt stances to protect their self-worth from threats

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Describe the Placating Stance

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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.

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Describe the Blaming Stance

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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

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Describe the Superreasonable Stance

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Every aspect of living becomes intellectual experience that bypasses inner self and ensures anesthesia of feelings. Uninvolvment and control -> internal feeling is vulnerability

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Describe the Irrelevant Stance

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Handles stress by pretending it’s not there. Focuses elsewhere, away from present context and away from feelings. Internally, uncared for and alienated.

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What theory does EFT mainly draw from?

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Attachment Theory

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Goals of EFT (3)

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  1. Expand and re-organize key emotional responses between partners (identification of primary and secondary emotions)
  2. Create secure bond between partners
  3. Shift interactions between partners
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Theory of dysfunction in EFT

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Partners process and enact attachment needs in a context of perceived hanger and insecurity that primes their distress.

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Describe the stance of an EFT therapist

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Process consultant - therapist engagement in alliance with each client (safe haven for both)

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Steps 1-4 of EFT

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Assessment and de-escalation of problematic interactional cycles

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Steps 5-7 of EFT

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Creation of specific change events where interactional positions shift and new bonding experiences occur

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Steps 8-9 of EFT

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Consolidation of change and integration of changes in to everyday life

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Who is associated with Internal Family Systems?

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Richard (Dick) Schwartz

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What modalities influenced IFS?

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Structural, Strategic, Satir, and Bowen

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Goal of therapy in IFS

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Help client differentiate his/her core SELF and heal subparts

Family members can have SELF to SELF interactions

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What causes resistance in IFS?

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Activation of sub-roles/parts

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Describe the EXILE

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contain pain, fear, and sadness from past hurtful feelings

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Describe the MANAGERS

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Try to keep the exiles, and the feelings they contain, out of consciousness

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Describe the FIREFIGHTERS

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Used when managers fail - douse painful emotions with substances such as food, drugs, or alcohol, or distract with sex, self-mutilation, or obsessive activity

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What is RISSSC?

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Expression of empathy in EFT

R: Repeat
I:  Images
S: Simple
S: Slow
S: Soft
C: Client's Words

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