The spouse as co-therapist in the treatment of agoraphobia.
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Involving the spouse as a co-therapist made no significant difference to the outcome of treatment in a controlled study of 19 married patients suffering from agoraphobia who were engaged in short-term home-based behavioural treatment. Improvement continued to 6-month follow-up. The marriages of those with some marital difficulties at the start tended to improve, whether or not the spouse was involved. Poor initial marital adjustment was not related to the degree of improvement in agoraphobic symptoms.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
دوره 144 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1984