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The Course of Dyadic Adjustment and Depressive Symptoms During and After Couples Therapy: A Prospective Follow‐up Study of Inpatient Treatment
Author(s) -
Tilden Terje,
Gude Tore,
Hoffart Asle
Publication year - 2010
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.1752-0606.2009.00187.x
Subject(s) - depressive symptoms , distress , psychology , autonomy , schema (genetic algorithms) , clinical psychology , psychological distress , medicine , psychiatry , mental health , cognition , machine learning , political science , computer science , law
A clinical sample of adult patients suffering from relational distress and concurrent psychiatric symptoms was followed from admission, through residential couple therapy, to 1‐year follow‐up. At follow‐up, 9.8% were separated. The remaining couples showed significant improvement in dyadic adjustment at posttreatment. However, at 1‐year follow‐up, a subgroup of 25% of the positive treatment responders had deteriorated to below their admission levels of dyadic adjustment. Contrary to expectation, the deteriorated group had showed significantly less distress both in depressive symptoms and in one early maladaptive schema domain—Impaired Autonomy—at admission, when compared with the rest of the sample, which suggests the need for further research and possible replication in this area.