Emotion Focused Couples Therapy as a Treatment of Somatoform Disorders: An Outcome Study

Sixteen couples in which one of the partners met criteria for Somatoform Disorder or Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder as determined by the SOMS and who scored less than or equal to 101 on the Dyadic Adjustment Scale participated in this study. These couples were randomly assigned to 8 sessions of emotionally focused therapy or to a 12-week wait list condition. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotion focused therapy as a treatment of somatoform disorders. Results suggest that the intervention of emotion focused couples therapy (EFT) was not effective in the treatment of somatoform disorders. A significant effect (.023) was found in the increased reporting of symptoms at posttest. Implications for EFT and marriage and family therapy are discussed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Human Development

Department dc:contributor.department

Human Development

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2002

Author dc:creator

• Walsh, Stephanie Renee

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Protinsky, Howard O. Jr.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Prouty, Anne M.
• Goldston, David
• Denton, Wayne H.
• Piercy, Fred P.
• Johnson, Scott W.

• Couples Therapy
• Somatoform Disorders
• Emotion focused therapy

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• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-04262002-132402

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/27307