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Understanding Emotionally Focused Therapy

Test your knowledge on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Behavioral Couples Therapy (BCT) with this comprehensive quiz! Designed for mental health professionals, educators, and students, this quiz challenges your understanding of key concepts and practices related to couple therapy.

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EFT has been successfully implemented to treat PTSD with couples. THe main difference between traditional EFT and treatment for traumatized couples is

Treatment is shorter

Treatment is longer

Treatment focuses more on de-escalation

Treatment focuses more on reducing blame

EFT is contraindicated for which of the following types of couples:

Couples who are separating

Couples who are abusive

Couples who are separating and abusive

None of the above

Although the EFT therapist helps each partner construct a brief focused narrative of their attachment history, the primary arena of change in EFT is the present relationship.

True

False

According to Sue Johnson, non resolving couples tend to have which of the following:

More than 3 injuries but higher trust levels

Only one injury and varying trust levels

More than one injury and moderate trust levels

More than one injury and lower trust levels

For both EFT and EFFT, the change in therapy is viewed as occurring primarily

Intrapsychically

Systemically

Outside the session rather than inside it

Within the session rather than outside of it

The goal of EFFT is which of the following?

Modify family relationships in the direction of increased affection and discipline, thus helping the family to create a secure base for children to access and learn in

Modify family relationships in the direction of decreasing emotionality and expression, thus helping the family to create a secure base for their children to think and reason soundly

Modify family relationships in the direction of increased accessibility and responsiveness, thus helping the family to create a secure base for children to grow and learn in

Modify family relationships in the direction of increased structure and awareness, thus helping the family to create a secure base for children to anticipate rules and growth

Typically when working with injured couples, who does the therapist typically work with first?

The pursuer/non-injured partner

The withdrawer/the injured partner

Both pursuer/non injured partner and withdrawer/injured partner

Whoever answers the question first

Which of the following is considered a core intervention in Behavioral Family Therapy?

Empathic conjecture

Problem solving

Finding exceptions

All of the above

During the problem definition phase of BCT, after one spouse initiates discussion of the problem, it is the other partner's turn to

Paraphrase back their partner's discussion fo the problem

Challenge their partner's perspective of the problem

Choose their own problem and discuss it

Propose solutions to their partner's problem

A major premise of cognitive behavioral couples therapy is that partners' dysfunctional emotional and behavioral responses to the relationship are affected by which of the following?

Attachment wounds

Emotional betrayals

Childhood trauma

Information processing errors

According to CBCT, relationship distress is often caused by

Differences in individual wants or needs from the relationship

Differences in attachment styles

Lack of understanding of how past relationships affect the current relationship

Dominant narratives in society

The main goal of assessment in CBCT is

To gather relationship history

To assess each partner's level of emotional regulation

To clarify the cognitive, behavioral, and affective factors exhibited in the couple

To identify pleasing behaviors that have stopped occurring

When working with addiction, a behavioral couples therapy approach assumes

That family members can reward abstinance

That family interactions cause addiction

That emotional dysregulation in relationships triggers use

That addictive behaviors are genetic

The partner who is in recovery states intent not to drink or use drugs that day as a part of which intervention

Catch your partner doing something nice

Planned shared rewarding Ac

Caring Day

None of the above

CBCT is complete when

The couple has expanded their emotional experiences in their interactions

The couple manages their differences in more respectful and adaptive ways

The couple is making new choices based on increased understanding of childhood trauma

The couple has increased the ratio of positive to negative behaviors

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