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KMID : 0368820100490010082
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Journal of the Korean Neuropsychiatr Association
2010 Volume.49 No. 1 p.82 ~ p.89
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The Effects of Emotionally Focused Therapy(EFT) for Couples：Pilot Study
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Park Sung-Deok
Lee Woo-Kyung
Chang Hye-Ryeon
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study investigated the effects of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) on distressed married couples.
Methods: We conducted 5 to 19 EFT sessions once a week with 10 couples from Yongin Mental Hospital who were experiencing marital conflict. We assessed participants before and after EFT, using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Symptom Checklist 90-R (SCL-90R), and Korean Marital Satisfaction Inventory (K-MSI). The EFT consisted of 3 stages comprising 9 steps. Every couple followed this EFT structure.
Results: After completing the EFT sessions, the inventories showed the couples experiencing significant improvements in various psychological symptoms and marital satisfactions.
Conclusion: These results indicate that EFT could be applied to distressed couples in a clinical setting and could effectively reduce psychological symptoms and improve marital satisfaction. Further study of the generalizability of these results and of the process variables are needed.
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KEYWORD
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Distressed couple, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Process variables
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