Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors

Despite challenges with regulating and differentiating affect, especially shame, improvements in relationship satisfaction and trauma symptoms suggest that incorporating couple therapy into the healing process of trauma survivors may be powerful and timely. This inclusion can provide an opportunity for healing on a deeper relational level than can occur in individual therapy while incorporating the survivor's partner into the healing journey from which he or she has historically been alienated.

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