The Humanistic Nature Of EFT 1. The therapist in EFT is best thought of in the following terms: (more than one correct answer) As a skills coach. As an expert who can offer unique insight and direction. As a creator of safety—a secure base—in the therapy session. As a process consultant for inner and interpersonal processes. As a collaborative consultant who learns from and with the clients. 2. The EFT therapist strives to be: (more than one correct answer) Attuned to and emotionally engaged with both partners. Active; e.g., choreographing interactions and promoting safety Nonjudgmental: accepting and validating partner’s experience. Genuine and transparent. Primarily a teacher and coach about skills and the nature of relationships. Emotionally present. Approving and endorsing all responses. 3. The most basic building block of EFT, and one that reflects its humanistic perspective, is: Empathic reflecting on each client’s emotions. Validating each partner’s experience. Structuring new interactions to teach communication skills. Promoting catharsis. Allowing for the safe ventilation of emotions. 4. The therapist’s empathy, in which imagination plays a key role, allows people to: (more than one correct answer) As Rogers said, explore and discover “the order in experience.” Place defensiveness, vigilance, and the need to avoid aside. Regulate difficult and sometimes overwhelming emotions. Focus on, and thereby distill, the complex meanings—the whole—from the parts in their experience. Accept and integrate elements of their experience that they judge themselves for or find difficult to deal with. Tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty. Take responsibility for how they construct their experience and their responses. 5. Which of the following is not an essential humanistic stance? People have good reasons for their ways of seeing and responding and, if supported, can grow and learn. Emotion colors perception and plays a key role in the formation of meaning. The task of therapy is to enhance awareness, thereby creating an expanded sense of agency. All the therapist needs to do is create a good alliance, empathize, and validate Adaptive defenses become chronic and begin to constrict awareness—experience— and, therefore, choices. 6. Health, in humanistic, systemic, and attachment theories, is essentially: (more than one correct answer) The ability to be open to experience and adapt to new contexts with flexibility. Acceptance of self and the ability to take responsibility for perceptions, actions, and impact on others. The ability to process experience and form coherent and integrated wholes where meanings and needs/goals are clear. The ability to engage with others in an open, flexible manner 7. The focus of the humanistic EFT therapist is: (two correct answers) On the present, and the past as it becomes present. On past events and how they defined the individual client. On the structure of personality and psychodynamic understandings On present process and the ongoing construction of reality and interaction patterns. 8. In what way is emotion not viewed in humanistic interventions? Providing the organism with rapid, compelling, and vital information about what matters (what is important in terms of key issues) such as survival and answering basic needs. Alerting people to the significance of events for their well-being. Focusing attention and priming and organizing appropriate action responses. Playing a crucial role in the construction of meaning Communicating with others: emotional expression is the primary signaling system between primates and pulls for specific responses. Needing to be ventilated without reflection, thereby discharging tension. Time's up
