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The stages and steps of
EFT
Stage 1: The De-escalation of
Negative Cycles of Interaction
- Step 1 – creating an
alliance
- Step 2 – Identifying
negative interactional cycle
- Step 3 – Accessing
unacknowledged emotions underlying interactions
- Step 4 – Reframing the
problem in terms of the negative cycle, underlying emotions, and attachment
needs – the cycle is framed as the common enemy and source of emotional
distress
Stage 2: Changing Interaction
Positions
- Step 5 – Promoting
identification with disowned attachment emotions, needs, and aspects of self and
integrating these into relationship interactions
- Step 6 – Promoting
acceptance of the partner’s experiences and new interactional
responses
- Step 7 – Facilitating
the expression of needs and wants and creating emotional engagement and bonding
events that redefine the attachment between partners
Stage 3: Consolidation and
Integration
- Step 8 – Facilitating
the emergence of new solutions to old relationship
problems
- Step 9 – Consolidating
new positions and new cycles of attachment behaviours
All
information regarding EFT is quoted for paraphrased from ‘The Practice of
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connections’ (Johnson, S.M., 2004)
or ‘Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors: Strengthening
Attachment Bonds’ (Johnson, S.M., 2002). This information represents to basic
tenets of EFT and any errors are
unintentional.
Delegates are
strongly recommended to pre-read ‘The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple
Therapy: Creating Connections’ available on order at Archive Book Store,
Claremont, prior
to the workshop.
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