Treating attachment injured couples with emotionally focused therapy: a case study approach.

摘要: This paper compared the attachment injury resolution process in two distressed couples undergoing ten sessions of Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT), a short-term empirically validated treatment for relational distress. An is newly coined clinical construct that denotes specific type betrayal within couple’s relationship. The incident so potent it calls into question assumptions about safety task analytic method was used to examine pathways change as related each couple. Several outcome and measures were employed order differentiate therapeutic between resolved versus non–resolved Results indicated couple who their identified at outset therapy adhered model, while showed marked deviations from expected change. Findings suggest tended show more differentiation interactional positions greater levels experiencing throughout relation It recommended further research necessary utility model context larger number case studies.