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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 The Field of Couple Therapy and EFT
• The Emergence and Growth of EFT
• The EFT Approach
• What Is EFT?
• How Is EFT Different From Other Approaches?
• Role of the Therapist
• A Primary Focus on the Present
• Treatment Goals—Secure Bonding
• An Emotional Focus
• Taking People As They Are
• Where Does the EFT Theory of Change Come From?
• What Does EFT Look Like?
• Stage 1: The De-Escalation of Negative Cycles of Interaction—Relationship Stabilization
• Stage 2: Changing Interactional Positions
• Stage 3: Consolidation and Integration
• The Process of Change
• A Typical Change Process: Snapshots
• Cycle De-Escalation
• Withdrawer Engagement
• Blamer Softening
• 2 An Attachment View of Love: The EFT Approach
• The EFT Perspective on Adult Love
• The Tenets of Attachment Theory
• Adult Attachment—A Note
• Attachment as an Integrative Perspective
• Changes in Attachment
• The Significance of Attachment Theory for Couple Therapy
• 3 The EFT Theory of Change: Within and Between
• The Experiential Viewpoint—Changing Inner Experience
• Systems Theory: Changing Interactional Patterns
• Integrating Systemic and Experiential Perspectives
• Summary: The Primary Assumptions of EFT
• 4 The Basics of EFT Interventions: Emotions and the Macro-Intervention, the EFT Tango
• Expanding Experience and Shaping Dances
• The Key Role of Empathy
• Task 1: The Creation and Maintenance of a Therapeutic Alliance
• Task 2: The Accessing and Reformulating of Emotion
• Emotion in EFT
• Which Emotion to Focus On?
• Example: A Therapist Piecing Together the Elements of Emotion
• The EFT Tango: Changing Self and Relational System
• Tango Move 1—Mirroring Present Process
• Tango Move 2—Affect Assembly and Deepening
• Tango Move 3—Choreographing Engaged Encounters
• Tango Move 4—Processing the Encounter
• Tango Move 5—Integrating and Validating
• The Therapist’s Stance in the EFT Tango
• 5 Basic EFT Micro Skills: Experiential and Systemic
• Skills and Micro-Interventions: Task 2: Accessing, Regulating, and Restructuring Emotion
• 1. Reflection
• 2. Validation
• 3. Evocative Responding: Reflections and Questions
• 4. Heightening
• 5. Empathic Conjecture/Interpretation
• 6. Self-Disclosure
• Summary
• Task 3: Restructuring Interactions Toward Positive Connection
• 1. Tracking and Reflecting
• 2. Reframing
• 3. Restructuring and Shaping Interactions
• Techniques Specific to Difficult Therapeutic Impasses
• Diagnostic Pictures or Narratives
• Individual Sessions
• Summary
• The How of Interventions
• In-Session Processes and Interventions
• 6 Assessment: Defining the Dance and Listening to the Music
• Process Goals
• The Therapy Process
• Personal Landmarks or Defining Incidents and Injuries
• Interactional Landmarks
• Individual Sessions
• Therapeutic Processes
• Therapeutic Markers
• Intrapsychic Markers
• Interpersonal Markers
• Interventions
• The EFT Tango in Early Sessions
• Move 1: Mirror and Reflect Present Process
• Move 2: Affect Assembly and Deepening
• Micro-Interventions in Early Sessions
• 1. Reflection
• 2. Validation
• 3. Evocative Reflections and Questions
• 4. Tracking and Reflecting Interactions
• 5. Reframing
• Couple Process and End State of Early Sessions
• 7 Changing the Music: Toward De-Escalation/Stabilization
• Markers
• What Does the EFT Tango Typically Look Like at This Point in Therapy?
• Micro-Interventions
• 1. Validation
• 2. Evocative Reflections and Questions
• 3. Heightening
• 4. Empathic Conjecture
• 5. Tracking and Reflecting Patterns and Cycles of Interaction
• 6. Reframing of the Problem in Terms of Contexts and Cycles
• Couple Process and State at the End of Stage 1
• End of Stage 1: Snapshot and Exercise
• 8 Deepening Engagement: The Beginning of Stage 2
• Markers
• The EFT Tango in Stage 2
• Micro-Interventions in Stage 2
• 1. Evocative Responding
• 2. Heightening
• 3. Empathic Conjecture
• 4. Restructuring Interactions
• Couple Process and End State
• 9 Reaching for Secure Connection
• EFT Change Events in Stage 2: Re-Engagement and Softening
• Markers
• The Tango in Change Events—Re-Engagement and Softening in Stage 2
• Interventions
• Evocative Responding: Reflections and Questions
• Empathic Conjecture
• Tracking and Reflecting the Cycle
• Reframing
• Restructuring Interactions
• Change Events
• Withdrawer Re-Engagement
• Softening
• 10 The Consolidation of a Secure Base: Stage 3
• The Beginning of Stage 3
• Markers: The Beginning of Consolidation
• Consolidating New Positions, Stories, and Visions
• In the Final Sessions
• Interventions in the Consolidation Stage
• Reflection and Validation of New Patterns and Responses
• Evocative Responding
• Reframing
• Restructuring Interactions
• Couple Process and End State
• The Nurturing and Maintenance of a More Secure Bond
• 11 Key Clinical Issues and Solutions: Becoming an EFT Therapist
• Becoming an EFT Therapist
• Question: What Types of Couples/Individuals Is EFT Particularly Suited For/Not Suited For?
• Question: When Is EFT Contraindicated?
• Question: What Is the General EFT Stance on Addressing Diversity?
• Question: How Does the EFT Therapist Deal With Impasses in Therapy?
• Question: How Does the EFT Therapist Deal With Past Experiences?
• Question: Does the EFT Therapist Ever Contain Emotion?
• Question: Do Individuals Change in the Course of EFT?
• Question: How Does the EFT Therapist Know Which Emotion to Focus On?
• Question: How Does Emotional Experience Evolve in EFT?
• Engagement Expands Emotion
• Specific Interactional Tasks Create New Experience and a New Story
• Emotional Processing Naturally Evolves and Has Its Own Pathways
• Comment
• Question: What Do We Know of the Process of Becoming an EFT Therapist?
• 12 EFFT: Emotionally Focused Family Therapy
• Restructuring Attachment
• Basic Goals and Techniques
• Format
• Prerequisites and Contraindications
• First Sessions (1–2)
• Working Through Sessions
• First Case Example of EFFT: My Daughter, I Just Want to Protect You
• A Typical Session
• Reflection of Experience
• Reflection of Pattern
• Validation
• Evocative Responding
• Heightening
• Empathic Conjecture
• Reframing
• Restructuring Interactions
• Termination Sessions
• Differences From EFT for Couples
• Second Case Example of EFFT: Hold Me Tight Before I Go
• Present Status of EFFT
• 13 Relationship Traumas: Addressing Attachment Injuries
• Forgiveness and Reconciliation
• 14 Live at an EFT Externship: A Stage 1 EFT Session
• 15 A Stage 2 EFT Session
• Stage 2 Session
• The Tsunami of Disapproval
• Incident
• Move 1—Mirror Present Process
• Move 2—Affect Assembly and Deepening
• Move 3—Choreograph New Encounters
• Move 4—Process the Encounter
• Move 5—Integrating and Validating
• Epilogue
• EFT Learning Resources
• Relationship Education Programs
• For Professionals
• For the Public
• References
• Additional Readings
• Books
• Key Outcome and Follow-Up Studies on EFT in the Last Decade
• Outcome Research
• Process and Predictors Research
• EFT Relationship Education Program Research
• Index