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Helping Clients Victimized by Intimate Partners Through Stages of Change: An Emotion-Focused Approach

dc.contributor.authorLeal, João
dc.contributor.authorCunha, Carla
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Anita
dc.contributor.authorSalgado, João
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-19T13:13:51Z
dc.date.available2024-04-19T00:30:15Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractIntimate partner violence results in extensive negative mental health outcomes including depression, posttraumatic stress, and anxiety. Moreover, victimized partners who experience cumulative episodes of abuse over time can also present severe afect dysregulation and interpersonal difculties. Preliminary evidence for existing psychological treatments shows that these are globally efective on a symptomatic level and in reducing revictimization. Nonetheless, systematic reviews show high attrition rates and suggest that future interventions need to address a wider range of emotional difculties and contextual challenges according to readiness for change. In this article, our goal is to contribute to the development of more responsive interventions that are tailored to individual experiences of violence with a focus on personal values, self-determination, and autonomy, as well as promoting adaptive coping and safety. More specifcally, we describe how the intervention principles and experiential tasks of a neohumanistic model, emotion-focused therapy, can be integrated into a mediating readiness for change framework to help victimized clients receiving psychological treatment. We address four main problematic contentafective states that may hinder the therapeutic progress (interrupting fear of change, decisional pain, overwhelming safety concerns, and long-term interpersonal injuries), their association with stages of change, and how they can be resolved insession using emotion-focused principles and interventions. The implications for future research are also discussed .pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10879-020-09474-4pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.24/1632
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.subjectIntimate partner violencept_PT
dc.subjectEmotion-focused therapypt_PT
dc.titleHelping Clients Victimized by Intimate Partners Through Stages of Change: An Emotion-Focused Approachpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage48pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue1pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage41pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Contemporary Psychotherapypt_PT
oaire.citation.volume51pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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