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EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED COUPLES THERAPY: AN OUTCOME STUDY *
Author(s) -
Johnson Susan M.,
Greenberg Leslie S.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00624.x
Subject(s) - complaint , marital therapy , psychology , waiting period , clinical psychology , outcome (game theory) , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , toxicology , political science , law , biology , mathematics , mathematical economics
In a within‐subjects design in which couples acted as their own controls, assessment was completed at four times: at the time of intial contact, after an eight‐week waiting period, after eight sessions of Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy, and at an eight‐week follow‐up. Couples reported no significant changes on measures of dyadic adjustment, intimacy, target complaint reduction and goal attainment after the waiting period, but significant changes were found after treatment.