203 Qualitative Analysis of Self-Compassion, Selfprotection, and Self-Criticism in Emotionfocused Therapy Video Sessions

Bailey, Ghazaleh; Halamová, Júlia; Baránková, Martina

doi:10.24869/psihei.2020.203

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“…A main advantage is that the team and auditor must achieve consensus [55]. Our team agreed on the three domains from a previous pilot study [56] before each team member started developing separate subdomains, categories, and characteristics. After the first round, the team came together and discussed the core ideas.…”

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Qualitative Analysis of Chair Tasks in Emotion-Focused Therapy Video Sessions

Bailey

Halamová

Gablíková

2022

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One of the key elements of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is decreasing self-criticism as a secondary, maladaptive emotion within two-chair interventions while simultaneously increasing self-compassion and self-protection as primary, adaptive emotions. Though the concepts of self-compassion, self-protection, and self-criticism are highly acknowledged within psychotherapy research, the verbal articulation of these constructs within therapy sessions is underinvestigated. Thus, this qualitative study aims to examine how self-criticism, self-protection, and self-compassion are articulated by clients in EFT video sessions. Consensual qualitative research was used for data analysis performed by two core team members and one auditor. Three similar domains were considered for all three concepts: behavioural, emotional, and cognitive aspects. The number of self-protection statements was the highest among the states. The behavioural aspect was the most dominant domain for self-protection with the major subdomain ‘I tell you what I need’. For self-compassion, the cognitive aspect was the most significant domain containing eight subdomains, such as ‘I see your bad circumstances’. The most frequent domain for self-criticism was the behavioural aspect consisting of the two subdomains ‘I point out your wrong behaviours and I give you instructions’. The findings demonstrate the significance of promoting both self-compassion and self-protection to combat self-criticism. More studies of categorising a broader number of cases among various therapy approaches are necessary to develop a more detailed understanding of clients’ verbalisation of self-compassion, self-protection, and self-criticism within therapy.

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Section: Research Team and Consensual Qualitative Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%