Marital Status and Satisfaction Five Years Following a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Traditional versus Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy

Autor/inn/en	Christensen, Andrew; Atkins, David C.; Baucom, Brian; Yi, Jean
Titel	Marital Status and Satisfaction Five Years Following a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Traditional versus Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
Quelle	In: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 78 (2010) 2, S.225-235 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-006X
DOI	10.1037/a0018132
Schlagwörter	Marital Status; Marital Satisfaction; Effect Size; Therapy; Counseling Techniques; Marriage Counseling; Counseling Effectiveness; Behavior Modification; Divorce; Outcomes of Treatment; Questionnaires; California; Washington; Dyadic Adjustment Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familienstand; Therapie; Counseling technique; Counselling technique; Counselling techniques; Beratungsmethode; Eheberatung; Behaviour modification; Verhaltensänderung; Ehescheidung; Fragebogen; Kalifornien
Abstract	Objective: To follow distressed married couples for 5 years after their participation in a randomized clinical trial. Method: A total of 134 chronically and seriously distressed married couples were randomly assigned to approximately 8 months of either traditional behavioral couple therapy (TBCT; Jacobson & Margolin, 1979) or integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT; Jacobson & Christensen, 1998). Marital status and satisfaction were assessed approximately every 3 months during treatment and every 6 months for 5 years after treatment. Results: Pre- to posttreatment effect sizes on marital satisfaction were d = 0.90 for IBCT and d = 0.71 for TBCT, which were not significantly different. However, data through 2-year follow-ups revealed statistically significant superiority of IBCT over TBCT in relationship satisfaction, but subsequent data showed increasing similarity and nonsignificant differences in outcome. At 5-year follow-up for marital satisfaction relative to pretreatment, effect sizes were d = 1.03 for IBCT and d = 0.92 for TBCT; 50.0% of IBCT couples and 45.9% of TBCT couples showed clinically significant improvement. Relationship status, obtained on all 134 couples, revealed that 25.7% of IBCT couples and 27.9% of TBCT couples were separated or divorced. These follow-up data compared favorably to other, long-term results of couple therapy. Conclusion: TBCT and IBCT both produced substantial effect sizes in even seriously and chronically distressed couples. IBCT produced significantly but not dramatically superior outcomes through the first 2 years after treatment termination but without further intervention; outcomes for the 2 treatments converged over longer follow-up periods. (Contains 3 tables, 2 figures and 6 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10