Comparing and Contrasting Two Clients in Emotion-focused Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder across and within Four (4) Dimensions of: Negative Treatment-of-Self, Positive Treatment-of-self, Negative Emotions, and Positive Emotions
Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The current research paper presents a good-outcome and a poor-outcome case, individuals who were treated with Emotion-Focused Therapy, drawn from the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Pilot study. EFT is an evidence-based treatment for depression, couple distress and trauma and has shown promise for anxiety disorders, interpersonal problems, and eating disorder (Greenberg Watson, 2006; Paivio Nieuwenhivs, 2001; Greenberg Dolhanty, 2009; Mennin, 2004). The purpose of this research study was to track clients’ patterns of emotional change across treatment and within each therapy sessions, and to describe and examine how emotion changes for GAD clients in EFT. Using the individual case comparison methodology (Watson, Goldman, Greenberg, 2007) and implementing Plutchik’s wheel-of-emotion this study tracks the process of change between these two clients, across the four dimension of: Negative treatment-of-self, positive treatment-of-self, negative emotions, and positive emotions. The results represent certain factors that are specific to good and poor outcome clients.
Source: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Author: Sepideh Saedi Chekan
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2763220929