Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Loving Relationships

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Family Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 402-415

  Johnson, Sue ^a   Bradley, Brent ^b  

^a ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Application of EFT to trauma survivors; Attachment Theory "from cradle to grave"; Clear conceptualization of couple relationships on couple distress; De escalation of negative cycles and stabilization; Emotionally focused couple therapy creating loving relationships; Emotionally focused therapy for couples (EFT); Fostering open responsiveness and secure bonding; Goals of Stage III consolidation integration; Practice of emotionally focused couples therapy; Transforming emotional connection between partners during change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885774104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444310238.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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