Clinical Handbook of Emotion-Focused Therapy by Leslie S. Greenberg Rhonda N. Goldman & Rhonda N. Goldman

Author:Leslie S. Greenberg,Rhonda N. Goldman & Rhonda N. Goldman [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: American Psychological Association

CONCLUSION

Angus (2012) suggested that it is the interplay between narrative, emotion, and meaning-making processes that enables EFT clients to organize and symbolize emotionally personal stories, as an integrated, coherent self-narrative. Taken together, intensive IMCS and NEPCS research has suggested that it is client exploration and differentiation of primary adaptive emotions and action tendencies—in the context of EFT chair-task dialogues and autobiographical memory storytelling—that supports heightened self-reflection, meaning transformation, and readiness for change during EFT therapy sessions. It is in moments when clients begin to break free of the maladaptive emotions, which have defined their Same Old Stories or maladaptive self-narrative, and experience and report new, more adaptive emotions (Inchoate Storytelling) and actions (Unexpected Outcome Storytelling), both captured in the IMCS as high-level innovative moments, that EFT therapists can help clients to articulate a new view of self that highlights their role as agents of present and future change (Reconceptualization/Discovery Storytelling) and preferred story outcomes.

It appears that when EFT clients begin to narrate and reflect on positive intra/interpersonal shifts in emotional responses and actions emerging from experiences of therapeutic change, a new, more agentic view of self begins to emerge in late-phase EFT sessions. As such, both NEPCS change marker findings and IMCS highlight the critical role for EFT therapists’ process-guided facilitation of first noticing, and then facilitating clients to narration and reflection on salient intra/interpersonal change events, as the basis for the articulation of a new, more agentic and empowered view of self and self-narrative change (Reconceptualization/Discovery Storytelling), after the resolution of role-play chair dialogues. As previously noted, the capacity to narrate, understand, and integrate our most important life stories—as a coherent self-narrative—is key to adaptive identity development and the establishment of a more differentiated, flexible view of self. In fact, McAdams and Janis (2004) argued that our internalized self-narratives may have as much impact on guiding actions and behavior as dispositional traits, suggesting that when EFT therapists help their clients to emotionally transform their Same Old Stories and construct new, more agentic and adaptive self-narrative representations, they are in fact impacting the personalities of their clients and supporting enduring change.

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