Qualitative Analysis of Chair Tasks in Emotion-Focused Therapy Video Sessions
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Emotion-Focused Therapy
1.2. Research on Self-Compassion, Self-Protection, and Self-Criticism
- “recognizing suffering;
- understanding the universality of suffering in human experience;
- feeling empathy for the person suffering and connecting with distress (emotional resonance);
- tolerating uncomfortable feelings aroused in response to the suffering person (e.g., distress, anger, fear) so remaining open to and accepting of the person suffering; and
- motivation to act/acting to alleviate suffering.”
2. The Aim of This Research Study
3. Materials and Methods
- they needed to be in English;
- needed to involve sequences of clients expressing self-compassion, self-protection, or self-criticism within the therapy session in two-chair work;
- the quality of the tapes had to be sufficient for the transcription.
3.1. Procedures and Data Analysis
3.2. Research Team and Consensual Qualitative Research
4. Results
4.1. Self-Criticism
4.1.1. Behavioural Aspect
4.1.2. Cognitive Aspect
4.1.3. Emotional Aspect
4.2. Self-Compassion
4.2.1. Cognitive Aspect
4.2.2. Behavioural Aspect
4.2.3. Emotional Aspect
4.3. Self-Protection
4.3.1. Behavioural Aspect
4.3.2. Cognitive Aspect
4.3.3. Emotional Aspect
5. Discussion
5.1. Behavioural Aspect
5.1.1. Self-Criticism
5.1.2. Self-Protection
5.1.3. Self-Compassion
5.2. Cognitive Aspect
5.2.1. Self-Criticism
5.2.2. Self-Protection
5.2.3. Self-Compassion
5.3. Emotional Aspect
5.3.1. Self-Criticism
5.3.2. Self-Protection
5.3.3. Self-Compassion
5.4. Limitations
5.5. Implications for Practice
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Domain | Subdomain | Category | Characteristic | Example |
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Behavioural aspect | I point out your wrong behaviours. | I put you down for past behaviours. | You always do… | “You’re always arguing” |
You sometimes do… | “You sometimes forget to send lunch for your son…” | |||
Your behaviours are not enough. | “How hard you try it’s just not enough | |||
You are not doing it right. | “you’re not doing anything right” | |||
You are not capable of… | “you can’t even take your children to Disney World this year…” | |||
I doubt your present behaviour. | What are you doing? | “…now look at you what are you doing?…” | ||
I mistrust your future actions | What are you going to do next? | “what’s next, what do you gonna do next?” | ||
I tell you what to do. | I tell you what to do instead. | Make more money. | “with your college education, you should be making more money” | |
Obey me (self-critic). | “you need to listen to what I tell you because…” | |||
Push yourself. | “Keep on doing it. Keep on pushing yourself.” | |||
Work more. | “you should go to school and take a class, you should get out…” | |||
I tell you what not to do. | Don’t feel. | “don’t feel just do” | ||
Don’t cry. | “…laugh and the world laugh with you, cry and you cry alone” | |||
Don’t take time for yourself. | “You don’t need to be taking time for yourself.” | |||
Cognitive aspect | I evaluate you as a person. | I have high standards towards you. | You are not meeting my standards. | “you’re not living up to what I expect you” |
I give you the conditions for being loved. | “if you do what we say if you behave if you act the way we want you to then you are important to us” | |||
You are not perfect. | You’re not the best. | “okay you get straight As but you’re not in the top ten…” | ||
You are good but. | “you know you are a good wife but…” | |||
You are inadequate. | You are not enough as a person. | “you’re not good, you’re just not good…” | ||
You don‘t have enough skills. | “I mean you don’t even know how to…” | |||
You are not efficient enough. | “you know you can’t function” | |||
You are not interesting enough. | “You’re boring” | |||
You are ridiculous. | “you look you walk like you walking through cement…” | |||
I evaluate your situation. | I criticize you for the situation you are in. | You are in a bad situation again. | “…you fell right back into the same situation, and it’s the same thing” | |
It’s too hard for you again. | “it’s too hard” | |||
You are trapped again. | “…you know what do you guys gonna do ahm…” | |||
You are failing again. | “this is your second marriage, and you can’t even make it work…” | |||
You should be… | You should be more. | Be stronger. | “you should be you should be been stronger” | |
Be more knowledgeable. | “you should be known better that get involved with him in the first place…” | |||
Have more self-esteem. | “you should have more self-esteem” | |||
You should be less. | Be less alone. | “That’s alone, you should…” | ||
You don’t deserve having needs. | “there is no reason, there is no reason that you need to ever go out with your friends…” | |||
Emotional aspect | Your feelings are disproportional. | You feel too much of… | Depression. | “yet lived depressed most of your life” |
You feel too little of… | Happiness. | “you not, you’re never happy” | ||
Joy. | “you can’t, can’t enjoy your children” | |||
You are unpleasant to me. | Contempt. | “Why are you even here?” | ||
I’m disgusted by you. | “I’m disgusted that you just lazy” | |||
I’m ashamed of you. | You are unworthy. | “you’re not worth anything” | ||
Anger for… | letting it happen. | “I’m angry that you that you let it happened” | ||
being a victim. | “I’m angry that you that you were a victim” |
Domain | Subdomain | Category | Characteristic | Example |
---|---|---|---|---|
Behavioural aspect | I‘m going to alleviate your suffering. | I’m going to stop hurting you. | I will stop making demands. | “I’m gonna stop making you these demand on you” |
I will stop confusing you. | “. I don’t wanna be confused anymore about the situation” | |||
I will stop blaming you. | “I’m gonna say you were you’re not to blame you were you were strong | |||
I will show you support. | I‘m here for you. | “I’ll be there when you need me and you can you can come to that place within yourself” | ||
You did your best. | “you did everything you could have done” | |||
I give you safeness. | “I’m not trying giving you answers” | |||
I give you comfort. | “I’m just trying to be the warmth that you’re seeking right know” | |||
I give you something uplifting. | “…I would call or take you somewhere or you know trying something that lift your spirit…” | |||
It’s not my fault. | “it wasn’t my fault” | |||
Cognitive aspect | I see your bad circumstances. | You were a victim. | “and that she was a victim of the circumstance” | |
It was your childhood. | “it’s what my situation what it gave me that’s that was my childhood” | |||
It’s situational. | “you know just a situational…” | |||
You deserve all universal human needs. | It is normal to want to be loved. | “I understand that you were trying to find somebody that loved you” | ||
It is normal to want to be understood. | “You need me to understanding you, so I try to understand you a little more.” | |||
It’s ok to have difficult feelings. | It’s ok to be angry. | “sometimes do I feel like I take out my Anger for towards my nan and you” | ||
It’s ok to be frustrated. | “…and my frustration about the situation I take that on you, I shouldn’t” | |||
I missed closeness with you. | “we could have grown together” | |||
I’m grateful for your (to critic) support. | You taught me taking action. | “even though you never gave me the words you did, you gave me the actions” | ||
You helped me feel empowered. | “…I know I got that, ahm sense of power per se” | |||
You helped me feel strong. | “you’ve given me strength and I don’t think I realized it till right now” | |||
I appreciate you. | I appreciate myself for my positive qualities. | “I do know that I can do anything I set my mind to, can do anything that I set my mind” | ||
I appreciate myself for my achievements. | “…I think about sitting there and think about all the things that I can do and I have done…” | |||
You matter. | “cause it’s not worth it, it’s not worth it , nobody is worth that” | |||
I accept myself for who I am. | I’m ok. | “I still came out I guess one say okay.” | ||
I give you compassionate advices | I suggest you do. | Build more self-esteem. | “If you find that self-esteem about yourself that I think that you need” | |
Take it easy. | “definitely he would tell me take it easy” | |||
Have faith. | “you know you’re a child of God” | |||
Take care of yourself. | “…you’re gonna get sick again,” | |||
Work it out. | “try to work it out” | |||
Show understanding towards… | “we need to understand why…” | |||
Be forgiving. | “but we should also forgive” | |||
Accept that you are not perfect. | “that’s the best you can do” | |||
Make a decision. | “you have a decision to make” | |||
Be more aware what’s going around so I can forgive you. | “I can forgive you if you don’t put yourself into the same situation again” | |||
I suggest what you shouldn’t do. | You do too many things. | “you trying many things” | ||
Don’t change. | “you are not going to let it change you are not going to let it define who you are” | |||
Don’t be dismissive. | “don’t be so quick to dismiss him” | |||
Emotional aspect | I feel your pain. | You felt bad. | “that you were feeling bad about yourself” | |
It’s hard. | “…and that’s a hard way ever feel like” | |||
I’m sorry for… | for treating you badly. | “I don’t want you make you feel bad like this” | ||
for shaming you. | “And I don’t want to make you feel like you have to crawl up in a bowl and hide” | |||
I have positive feelings for you | I love you. | “I love you” | ||
I’m proud of you. | “I’m very proud of you” |
Domain | Subdomain | Category | Characteristic | Example |
---|---|---|---|---|
Behavioural | I tell you what I need. | I need you to see me for who I am. | I can’t be perfect. | “I’m not going to be perfect and I’m gonna make mistakes” |
I’m worthy. | “I am valuable” | |||
I have strength. | “I was strong” | |||
My past doesn’t define me anymore. | “that what happened in the past doesn’t define me”. | |||
I need you to stop negative behaviour to me. | Stop putting me down. | “Stop putting me down” | ||
Stop telling me what to do. | “I don’t wanna hear you tell me what I should be doing” | |||
Let go of the past. | “I want you to let go of it as well” | |||
Give me a break. | “I need you to give me a break and get off my back” | |||
Stop being rigid. | “I don’t want to be I don’t want to follow structures and schedules” | |||
Stop listening to others. | “because it empowers me to kind of not internalize all those…” | |||
I need you to do good to me. | Accept me. | “I want to be accepted” | ||
Be warm. | “maybe I needed you to hug me and tell me that it was still okay instead of yelling at me” | |||
Be supportive. | “I need to be taken care of” | |||
Be optimistic. | “you also have to look at the positive things” “I want you to respect my children” | |||
I need you to respect me. | “I want you to respect my children” | |||
Apologize for the damage you caused. | “I would like you to acknowledge the damage that it cost” | |||
I want to take responsibility for my life. | I want to be more expressive. | “I want to be free to express myself and my feelings” | ||
I want to be more flexible. | “I want to live a slightly more unstructured life” | |||
I want to take action. | “I want to have fun, I want to be active and do things,” | |||
I need to be good to myself. | Love myself | “I need to love myself” | ||
Take care of myself. | “I need to take care of me and help me start changing my pattern…” | |||
Take time for myself. | “but I need to have some time for myself and I need you to understand that” | |||
I need to set boundaries. | Stop it. | “well I’m gonna say stop” | ||
I won’t listen to you anymore. | “I’m not doing the things that you would choose for me” | |||
You don’t have the right. | “that person doesn’t they don’t have the right to say those things to me” | |||
I won’t accept being neglected anymore. | “I can’t accept that you couldn’t think passed yourself and think about the bigger picture” | |||
I reject your criticism. | “I know it’s not true what it is that you’re telling me” | |||
Cognitive aspect | I show understanding towards myself. | I have a right to be myself. | I have my personal traits. | “that’s doesn’t have to be exiting to be fun, to be okay” |
I perform as I do. | “I’ve done a good job, I’m doing a good job with my son” | |||
I was on my stage of development. | “I was on my stage of development, you can’t expect more from a child than what I did,” | |||
I deserve to be loved. | “I deserve to have mom who loved me” | |||
You don’t have the right to judge me because… | It was matter of circumstances. | “these things that just keep happening to me over and over.” | ||
Don’t compare me because I’m different. | “I don’t want you to ever say that I look like my nan again ever” | |||
You don’t know me. | “I can be a fun person to be around…” | |||
I acknowledge your (the critic) protective function. | I acknowledge your effort. | “you are getting better and I’m glad that you’ve taking these steps” | ||
I acknowledge your reasons. | “I do accept the reason I think I would…” | |||
I criticize you back. | You don’t acknowledge me. | “don’t you see anything good in me? if you do why don’t you ever say it?” | ||
You’re forcing me. | “then you tried to push me into things and I didn’t feel like I belong there and you just kept forcing me” | |||
You don’t listen. | “you wouldn’t listen to me when I tried to tell you this you just kept pushing me and pushing me” | |||
You always change your standards. | “you’re just like you’re nice and then you’re mean, and I can’t I can’t stay on that,” | |||
You don’t care about me. | “but I take care of you, completely and I get nothing…” | |||
You’re not nice to me. | “it’s not fair for anybody to treat you that way” | |||
Emotional aspect | I don’t want you to make me feel… | Frighten. | “I don’t want to be frighten anymore” | |
Tired. | “I’m tired of it | |||
I’m proud of myself. | “I’m proud of myself, for the accomplishments that I’ve made to this point,” | |||
I’m angry at you for… | Rejecting my feelings. | “I’m angry at you because I tried to tell you over and over again how I felt about things and you totally discounted my feelings” | ||
Not being there for me. | “…I’m angry at the fact that you drink, I know he has been drinking a lot lately, but you…” | |||
Forcing me… | “I am angry with you for forcing me into these situations” | |||
Being so negative | “…piss attitude, I’m angry with your attitude, it’s so nasty, so negative” | |||
Being dismissive. | “I’m angry that I wanna tried to talk to you about these things, you get defensive and tell me these things never happened” | |||
For living your life through me. | “I feel angry at you, because you tried to live your life through me | |||
I’m hurt. | “that hurts, I hurt…” | |||
I’m disappointed. | “then start being disappointed in me when I didn’t do as well as you expected me to do” | |||
I feel helpless. | “I didn’t know what to do and I carry a lot of that stuff around with me now and I don’t know what to do with it” |
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Bailey, G.; Halamová, J.; Gablíková, M. Qualitative Analysis of Chair Tasks in Emotion-Focused Therapy Video Sessions. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 12942. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph191912942
Bailey G, Halamová J, Gablíková M. Qualitative Analysis of Chair Tasks in Emotion-Focused Therapy Video Sessions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(19):12942. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph191912942
Chicago/Turabian StyleBailey, Ghazaleh, Júlia Halamová, and Mária Gablíková. 2022. "Qualitative Analysis of Chair Tasks in Emotion-Focused Therapy Video Sessions" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 19: 12942. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph191912942