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EFFECTS OF A COMMUNICATION TRAINING COMPONENT ADDED TO AN EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED COUPLES THERAPY
Author(s) -
James Paul S.
Publication year - 1991
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.1752-0606.1991.tb00894.x
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , psychology , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , marital therapy , component (thermodynamics) , communication skills training , treatment and control groups , communication skills , applied psychology , medicine , medical education , computer science , physics , pathology , world wide web , thermodynamics
In this study a 4‐session communication skills training component was added to an 8‐session Emotionally Focused couples therapy package. This treatment (EFT + CT) was compared to 12 sessions of Emotionally Focused therapy (EFT) to investigate whether the communication training component enhanced the effectiveness of EFT, and both treatments were compared to a wait‐list control. Both treatments achieved superior gains at posttest compared to the control group on measures of marital adjustment and target complaint improvement (but not on intimacy and passionate love), with EFT + CT being superior on communication. The only differential treatment effect was EFT's superiority on target complaints at follow‐up.