CRC Emotional Intelligence & Self-Awareness Flashcards
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A coach notices they feel frustrated during a session with a client. This awareness of their own internal state is an example of:
Answer: Coach self-awareness
Coach self-awareness involves noticing one's own emotional responses during sessions, which is a foundational ICF competency.
Interoception, increasingly discussed in relationship coaching, refers to:
Answer: Sensing internal body states as a source of emotional information
Interoception is the ability to sense internal bodily signals (heartbeat, gut feeling, tension) that carry emotional information.
Which of the following best describes 'emotional granularity'?
Answer: The ability to distinguish between fine-grained emotional states with precision
Emotional granularity, studied by Lisa Feldman Barrett, is the ability to make precise distinctions between similar emotions (e.g., anxious vs. nervous vs. apprehensive).
A couple where both partners frequently 'mirror' each other's emotional expressions is demonstrating:
Answer: Attunement and emotional synchrony
Emotional attunement and synchrony reflect a healthy responsiveness between partners where they track and reflect each other's emotional states.
When a client reacts to their coach as if the coach were a significant person from their past, this is called:
Answer: Transference
Transference occurs when a client unconsciously redirects feelings from a past relationship onto the coach.
The self-awareness exercise of writing down one's emotional reactions after each significant conversation is an example of:
Answer: Journaling for emotional processing
Reflective journaling is a research-supported tool for increasing emotional self-awareness and processing emotional experiences.