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Home Study Post-Test
Lindsay Swan
2021-05-19T21:35:15+00:00
Please complete the home study post-test below. A score of 75% correct is required to obtain your CE certificate.
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Quiz on Dr. Sue Johnson's First Day Externship – Morning
1. According to attachment theory we exist as separate independent selves.
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2. EFT focuses on the power of emotion to organize people’s mental, emotional, and relational life.
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True
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3. Emotional isolation is traumatizing.
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4. EFT therapists teach clients to become independent and not rely on others for comfort and support.
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True
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5. Choose which of the following statements is most accurate:
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A. Emotion is irrational
B. From an attachment perspective, emotional responses and bizarre behavior always make sense, when we take time to “order it”
C. Emotion is rarely fast, chaotic or overwhelming
D. The best way to work with emotion is to respond with a fast pace
6. The best way to learn EFT is by recording and reviewing your therapy sessions!!
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7. The best predictor of repeated heart attacks is not severity of an initial heart attack or the quality of heart health but the significance of the heart patient’s relationship.
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True
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8. Change is created in EFT:
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A. Through insight
B. Through behavioral exercises for homework
C. Through corrective emotional experiences
9. EFT therapists have a de-pathologizing stance: We don’t go in to fix – but to be with our clients and to understand where they are and that they have good reasons for being stuck where they are.
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10. An externship is intended to help you will learn all but ONE of the following. Choose the item an externship DOES NOT seek to help you learn.
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A. Different ways of seeing your clients
B. Ways of Intervening that prioritize emotion
C. Ways to teach clients to problem-solve
D. A way of being human with your clients
11. Dr. S. Johnson suggests the only self-sufficient human being is a dead human being.
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12. The bonding conversations shaped in EFT sessions are what lead to trust, closeness, intimacy, marital satisfaction, sexual desire, sexual satisfaction, and secure attachment.
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13. EFT outcome studies show that EFT therapy can shift attachment orientation and can shift the broken trust from attachment injuries. Three-year follow up studies show that these shifts endure.
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14. Emotion is a high order information processing system designed to save your life.
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15. Dr. Sue Johnson recounted the story of a therapist overhearing a couple in the cloakroom saying, “How does he know all this stuff about my emotions and how we fight?” And the partner replied, “Either he belongs to the CIA and has been secretly taping us all these years or he is a witch.” Sue used this story to convey that an EFT therapist can readily understand the emotional dynamic and the interpersonal patterns of a couple because:
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A. To be an EFT therapist one needs to be somewhat able to read minds
B. An EFT therapist is an expert at making accurate interpretations of clients’ pathologies
C. An EFT therapist has the map of attachment to make sense of distressed patterns of behavior
D. The story illustrates the power EFT therapists have to accurately diagnose clients’ pathologies
16. Couple Therapy is the fulcrum of EFT. We need to know how to work with individuals and how to work with the family system. Working with couples is the best way to learn this, since it includes both the within (individual) and the between (system)—the self and the system.
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17. Insecure attachment is a risk factor for mental health problems. Over 100 studies link the severity of depression to insecure attachment.
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18. Secure attachment predicts optimism, empathy for others, resilience under trauma, and ability to deal with uncertainty.
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19. Lovers are regulators of each others’ physiology and emotional functioning.
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20. The attachment view of who we are as human beings suggests that our greatest resource is to learn how to control our own emotions without reaching out to anyone else.
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Quiz on Dr. Sue Johnson's First Day Externship – Afternoon
1. We are not wired to deal with difficulties alone. Human beings’ ability to manage life alone is limited.
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2. Suppressing emotions is very hard physiological work. Putting energy into suppression arouses a person more and more, making them sensitive to what they are suppressing.
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True
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3. Teaching self-soothing is a backbone of EFT.
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True
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4. Avoidance and suppression are the kryptonite of mental health problems.
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5. Empathic responsiveness is a nice intervention, but a rather insignificant intervention in EFT.
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6. Goals of an EFT therapist include all but ONE of the following. Choose the INCORRECT ANSWER:
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A. To keep your own emotional balance
B. To teach clients better communication and conflict resolution skills
C. To guide partners into empathic responsiveness with each other
D. To create a safe haven, secure base in the therapy room
E. To believe in your clients’ ability to grow
7. There are no bad guys in EFT. Rather, in distressed couples a repetitive pattern or dance has taken over—and clients are seen to be caught in an ineffective way of dealing with disconnection.
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8. Reflecting people’s vulnerability and pain will make it worse.
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9. The essence of EFT is to evoke emotion at a level the client can tolerate. As we evoke emotion, we help them order it and it becomes more manageable.
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10. The Three Stages of EFT are: De-escalation or Stabilization, Restructuring, and Consolidation.
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11. Which Move of the EFT Tango is represented in the following example from EFFT? The therapist reflects precisely what is happening here-and-now in the therapy room, saying, “Just now your son reached out his arms to you and you told your son he doesn’t ever do what you say.”
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A. EFT Tango Move 3, Shaping an engaged encounter
B. EFT Tango move 2, Assembling Affect and Deepening
C. EFT Tango Move 1, Reflecting present process
D. EFT Tango Move 5, Summarizing and Integrating
12. When processing the Encounter, in Move 4 of the EFT Tango, an EFT therapist keeps in mind that:
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A. When people hear a new message the first time it is easy to believe
B. When people hear a new message for the first time it is difficult to believe
C. When clients find it difficult to take in a new message, an EFT therapist should be transparent about feeling impatient
D. When a client struggles to trust what they have just heard, an EFT therapist pushes them to stop being resistant
13. An EFT research study, including an FMRI brain scan, on creating bonding conversations in EFT shows that EFT does more than shift relationship satisfaction. It also:
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A. Teaches partners more effective communication skills
B. Reduces conflict and disagreement
C. Helps people reduce needs for human connection
D. Changes attachment styles and perception of threat
14. Love and bonding:
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A. Change brain functioning
B. Are equal to sex and sentiment
C. Are a fluffy, sentimental, undefined dynamic
15. The 4 P’s of EFT, according to Dr. Sue Johnson refer to:
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A. Playfulness, proximity, primary (core) perfection and pleasure
B. Present moment, proximity, patterns, parallel processes
C. Present process, pain, pleasure, perfection
D. Present moment, primary (core) emotion, process, and patterns
16. The process of emotion in EFT refers to emotion as:
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A. A process that begins with an internal thought
B. A process that begins with a trigger, followed by a bodily sensation, meanings made and an action tendency
C. A process that is simply a repetitive prison of feeling, over and over again
D. A vague, general feeling that imprisons the client
17. There are 6-8 basic emotions we focus on in EFT. They are:
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A. Anger, sadness, disgust/shame, surprise/excitement, fear, joy
B. Joy, happiness, love, connection/disconnection, loneliness, grief
C. Anger, fury, rage, shame/disgust, pain, numbness
D. Grief/loss, loneliness, sadness, terror, panic, fear
18. Choose the correct statement:
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A. Secure connection leads to lack of self-esteem
B. Secure connection leads to autonomy and self-confidence
C. Secure connection primes self-doubts
D. Secure connection puts people at risk of being too dependent on others
19. A.R.E. as a definition of a secure attachment bond, refers to:
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A. Accountability, Realism, Emotional Eagerness
B. Ability, Reactivity, Emotional Empowerment
C. Actualization, Reliability, Emotional Eagerness
D. Accessibility, Responsiveness, and Emotional Engagement
20. Attachment styles or strategies can be described in 4 simple terms:
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A. Secure, connected, disconnected, detached
B. Secure, confident, autonomous, independent
C. Secure, avoidant, anxious, fearful avoidant
D. Secure, anxious, pursuing, borderline
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