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- Title
Caregiver openness in emotionally focused family therapy: A critical shift.
- Authors
Quinn, Brittany; Davis, Sean; Greaves, Bryson; Furrow, James; Palmer‐Olsen, Lisa; Woolley, Scott
- Abstract
Through the application of a discovery‐oriented task analysis, this research delineated specific therapist behaviors that resulted in a successful caregiver openness event in emotionally focused family therapy (EFFT). EFFT experts were recruited via email and asked to submit family therapy recordings where they believed a caregiver openness event occurred. Ten family therapy recordings were submitted by three experts. Within these recordings, 12 caregiver openness events were discovered and critically analyzed. Nine themes were identified and interventions therapists applied to accomplish these themes were delineated using the emotionally focused therapy‐coding scheme (EFT‐CS). These themes included: (1) validating and reframing the child's protected stance, (2) processing the impact of the child's unmet attachment longings, (3) validating the caregiver's blocked relational stance, (4) expanding caregiving intentions, (5) enacting the caregiver's intentions to meet the child's attachment longings, (6) processing the enactment, (7) processing and promoting caregiver accessibility to the child's response, (8) heightening the caregiver's accessible stance, and (9) enhancing shifting family dynamics. Additional findings, implications for clinical practice, training, and future research are discussed.
- Subjects
CAREGIVER attitudes; FAMILY psychotherapy; PSYCHOANALYTIC theory; EVALUATION of medical care; HEALTH services accessibility; MARRIAGE &; family therapists; TASK performance; ATTACHMENT behavior; PSYCHOLOGY of caregivers; VALIDATION therapy; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; EMOTIONS; PATIENT-professional relations; EMPIRICAL research; PSYCHOTHERAPIST attitudes; THEMATIC analysis; EMAIL; VIDEO recording
- Publication
Family Process, 2023, Vol 62, Issue 4, p1459
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12902