The CAEI Model

CAEI—Core Authenticity, Attachment Security, Expression Freedom, and Integration Coherence—is a proposed EST construct. Its component boundaries, measures, neural mappings, sequences, and clinical meaning remain research questions rather than HEART requirements.

Read the current model and evidence boundaries at Empathy Ethicist: CAEI Model.

HEART’s Emotional Autonomy Domain Profile requires evidence-bounded affective governance but does not mandate CAEI or treat a CAEI score as conformity evidence without a competent validation and verification plan.