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ArticleJournal of marital and family therapy2025

"Be Open to All Those Ways That People Can Live Their Lives:" LGBTQ+ Client Recommendations for Adapting Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy.

Caitlin Edwards, Andrea K Wittenborn, Robert Allan

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Article in Journal of marital and family therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Caitlin EdwardsDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7576-0483
Andrea K WittenbornDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4608-0635
Robert AllanSchool of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK.

Funding

This study was supported by Michigan State University's Sexual and Gender Minority Health Consortium SEED Grant.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emotionally focused couple therapy (EFCT) is an empirically supported treatment for relationship distress. Yet, despite EFCT's substantial evidence base, to date, there have been no studies that have integrated LGBTQ+ clients' experiences and therapeutic needs into the EFCT process. Thirty-five EFCT clients participated in theater testing focus groups to generate client recommendations for the use of EFCT for LGBTQ+ relationships. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Participants drew on their own lived experiences, their experiences receiving EFCT, and EFCT video observation to make recommendations about the use of EFCT for LGBTQ+ relationships.

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Couples TherapyInterpersonal RelationsSexual and Gender MinoritiesAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedQualitative Researchcultural adaptationemotionally focused couple therapyLGBTQ+therapeutic needs

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PMID40394884
PMCPMC12093043

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