Efficacy of Emotion Focused Therapy for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse: A Preliminary Study

By S. Paivio, J. A. Nieuwenhuis. 2001

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Emotion-Focused Therapy (2009, background): “EFT also has been found to be effective in treating abuse (14), resolving interpersonal problems, and promoting forgiveness (15, 16).”
Psychological Adjustment, Coping, and Emotion Regulation as Predictors of Posttraumatic Growth (2004, background): “Finally, since therapy assists recovery (e.g., Foa & Rothbaum, 1989; Paivio & Nieuwenhuis, 2001; Shapiro, 1999), it is thought that therapy can also encourage growth (Calhoun & Tedeschi, 1998; Tedeschi, 1999).”
Neurobiological and psychiatric consequences of child abuse and neglect. (2010, background): “Paivio and Nieuwenhuis (2001) examined the effectiveness of EFT in 32 adult survivors of childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.”
Research on experiential psychotherapies (2004, background): “Subsequently, Paivio and Nieuwenhuis (2001) compared a 20-session Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) of adults with unresolved issues of childhood abuse with a wait-list control.”
Emotion and evolving treatments for adult psychopathology. (2007, background): “…Whelton, 2004), and they have developed efficacious process-experiential interventions tailored to specific populations, such as patients with depression (see Greenberg & Watson, 2005; Pos, Greenberg, Goldman, & Korman, 2003) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Paivio & Nieuwenhuis, 2001).”