week nine - EFT

Question 1

What is the dialectical-contructivist view in EFT?

Answer 1

Combines reason and emotion. These are seemingly opposite, but it’s key we combine them together.

We feel things somatically and then we give it meaning.

Question 2

What are emotion schemes?

What are the two aspects of schemes?

Question 3

As an example, how would a scheme of trust be developed and play out in their life?

As an example, how would a scheme of mistrust be developed and play out in the person’s life?

Question 4

What are the three stages of EFT interventions?

Answer 4

1. Increasing emotional awareness
2. Enhancing emotion regulation
3. Transforming emotion

Question 5

Emotions are messengers, carrying important information.

Question 6

How do you go about helping someone to increase their emotional awareness?

Why is this helpful/important?

Answer 6

e.g. sadness at being ignored reveals an underlying need of belonging.
Next step would be how can the person get that need met in an adaptive way?

Can’t work with what you can’t see.

Question 7

‘Detached/numb’ as an emotion. Good to explore this.

Question 8

What is the purpose of emotions, as per EFT?

Answer 8

To motivate us.

Question 9

What are the differences between adaptive and maladaptive emotions/schemes?

Question 10

What are primary and secondary emotions?

Question 11

What is involved in the Emotion Regulation phase of EFT?

Question 12

What are the 5 aspects of helping people with emotional regulation?

Answer 12

1. Validating emotions.
2. Identifying and labelling emotions
3. Allowing and tolerating emotions.
4. Increasing positive emotions -
5. Reducing vulnerability - e.g. healthy routines

Question 13

What is the role of and how do you go about phase 3: transforming emotion?

Question 14

What is the role of an EFT therapist, and what does a good EFT therapist bring to the session?

Answer 14

You are not uncomfortable with the client’s emotions.

Nuanced exploration, curious and caring about the origins.

Helping clients to allow and accept emotions.

Interruptive processes e.g. noticing avoidance or blocks to feeling emotion

Question 15

In EFT, what is an emotion scheme?

Answer 15

Overtime, our emotional responses become organised into a network of bodily sensations, feeling/emotions, thoughts/meaning, and action tendencies, which are EMOTION SCHEMES.

Emotion schemes are helpful as they help to anticipate how we will feel and respond in future scenarios, allowing for us to plan, avoid, seek.

Question 16

What is the Dialectical-Constructivist View?

Answer 16

We create personal meaning from interaction of emotion/feelings and our reflective reasoning/language we use to understand our emotions and in turn our experiences.

Our experience of the world is constructed through an ongoing interaction between emotion and reasoning/cognition.

Question 17

What are the two parts that make up our emotional experiences/responses?

Answer 17

1. Physical, bodily sensations.
2. A social, language-based meaning/experience.

Question 18

What are the three major principles for intervention in EFT?

Answer 18

1. Increasing emotion awareness.
2. Enhancing emotion regulation.
3. Transforming emotion.

Question 19

In EFT, the first step in intervention is INCREASING EMOTION AWARENESS. How can this be achieved in a therapy session?

Answer 19

Emotional awareness is the foundation of change.

Emotions are messengers.

Awareness = feeling the feeling, not just thinking about it

Emotion guides our actions.

Clients are encouraged to feel the emotion and then put words.

A useful tool is a feeling tool.

Question 20

What is a primary emotion and a secondary emotion?

Answer 20

Primary emotion is the immediate emotional response to an event.

Secondary emotion is in response to primary emotions, and are often defensive. e.g. anger in response to feeling rejected.

Question 21

In EFT, the second step in intervention is IMPROVING EMOTIONAL REGULATION. How can this be achieved in a therapy session?

Answer 21

Emotion regulation refers to the ability to sit with and work through emotions, so that emotions can be understood, listened to, and potentially transformed.

A client can look like this:
- validation of feelings and emotions
- identifying and labelling emotions
- allowing and tolerating it
- reducing vulnerability

Increasing emotional regulation capacity.

Helping clients to regulate emotions through physiology, such as breath work.

Question 22

In EFT, the third step in intervention is TRANSFORMING EMOTIONS. How can this be achieved in a therapy session?

Answer 22

This principle is the most fundamental to EFT.

Aim is to help client to move from maladaptive emotions/schemes to adaptive emotional responses.

Some techniques can be, CHAIR WORK, WRITING LETTERS TO YOUNGER SELF.