Emotion-focused therapy for incarcerated offenders of intimate partner violence: A 3-year outcome using a new whole-sample matching method

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 331-347

  Pascual Leone, Antonio ^a   Bierman, Ralph ^b   Arnold, Robert ^a   Stasiak, Eugene ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b Independent Practice   (Canada)

^c Ontario Correctional Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Emotion focused therapy; Follow up; Generalized boosted regression; Matched groups; Propensity scores; Recidivism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FOLLOW UP; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEGOTIATING; ONTARIO; PRISONERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; RECURRENCE; RESEARCH; SPOUSE ABUSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957873372     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2011.572092     Document Type: Article

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