Resolving Attachment Injuries in Couples Using Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Three-Year Follow-Up

Rebecca E Halchuk · Judy A. Makinen · Susan M. Johnson

112 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Couple & Relationship Therapy

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Attachment and Relationship Dynamics Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics

Abstract

Couples who seek therapy for marital distress often do so because they have suffered an attachment injury, characterized by an abandonment or betrayal during a time of critical need. This follow-up assessed the efficacy of the newly developed Attachment Injury Resolution Model based in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Twelve couples with attachment injuries who received EFT were assessed to determine if the significant improvement in relationship distress observed in resolved couples at post-treatment would be maintained at 3-year follow-up. Results demonstrated that improvements in dyadic adjustment, trust, and forgiveness, as well as decreases in the severity of the attachment injury, were maintained over time. This follow-up study provides initial evidence of the long-term benefits of the Attachment Injury Resolution Model.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 112 citations exist upstream.

References

1976Measuring Dyadic Adjustment: New Scales for Assessing the Quality of Marriage and Similar Dyads 1987Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process.1987Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process.1998Attachment theory and close relationships 2000Forgiveness: Theory, research, and practice.1998Empirically supported couple and family interventions for marital distress and adult mental health problems.1991Attachment in marriage: Effects of security and accuracy of working models.1966Target Complaints as Criteria of Improvement

Cited by

2012Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples: The Client Change Process and Therapist Interventions 2020Interventions for Couples 2017Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy 2016Two‐Year Follow‐up Outcomes in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: An Investigation of Relationship Satisfaction and Attachment Trajectories 2019The aftershocks of infidelity: a review of infidelity-based attachment trauma

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.