1st Edition

Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Key Ingredients of Change

By Lorrie L. Brubacher Copyright 2018
    340 Pages
    by Routledge

    340 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume makes Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) widely accessible to therapists of different orientations and to therapists in training. It provides clinicians with practical tools, an experiential tour through case examples, and simple guidance to step into EFT. An overview of the change events includes both client processes and therapist interventions moment-to-moment. 'In Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change, each step and stage of EFT is laid out in a practical and theoretically simple manner that extends beyond what therapists need to do, to helping therapists grasp what experiential therapy is, providing moment-by-moment examples of how to engage clients emotionally, and how to foster emotional engagement between partners.'- From the Foreword by S. Johnson and A. Lee

    Foreword , Introduction , Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Stepping into Love as an Attachment Process , Introduction to emotionally focused therapy (EFT) , Key ingredients of change on the EFT roadmap , The revolutionary new science of love as an attachment bond , Attachment Emotions and Alarm Bells Ringing: De-Escalating Negative Cycles in Stage 1 of EFT , Assessment and alliance: the attachment experience of Steps 1 and 2 , The tyranny of unheeded attachment fears: unpacking emotion in the de-escalation change event (Steps 3 and 4) , The Role of Emotion in Creating Lasting Change: Reshaping Attachment Bonds in Stage 2 of EFT , Working with emotion to shape the withdrawer re-engagement change event (Steps 5–7) , Working with emotion to shape the blamer softening change event (Steps 5–7) , Integration and Consolidation , Consolidating secure bonds in Stage 3 of EFT (Steps 8 and 9) , Integrating and consolidating the map of EFT , Commonly Experienced Impasses in EFT Therapy , Addictive processes as substitute sources of comfort , Repairing broken bonds: forgiveness and reconciliation with EFT's attachment injury resolution model , The Next Steps , Extending attachment-based EFT to individual therapy , Future steps: you and EFT

    Biography

    Lorrie L Brubacher