The Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Therapy on Attachment Styles, Meta-Emotion and Terrifying Dreams among People with Suffering from Complex Trauma

The experience of childhood trauma is all the unpleasant and unpleasant experiences that a person has experienced during childhood either directly in relation to his caregivers and attachment figures, or as a result of the neglect and negligence of his attachment figures in relation to a stranger, he has experienced misbehavior. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of emotion-oriented intervention on attachment styles, hyperexcitability and fearful dreams in people with complex trauma symptoms.

Methods and Materials: 

This semi-experimental research, including pre-test-post-test, control group, was conducted on all adults with symptoms of complex trauma referring to psychological clinics in Isfahan province in spring 2002. The sampling method in the first stage was based on the available sampling method and they were randomly divided into two experimental groups (15 people) and control (15 people) and using the questionnaire of consequences of childhood traumas in adulthood by Bernstein et al, Collins and Reed attachment style questionnaire, Mitmansgruber hyperexcitability questionnaire, Mitmansgruber et al. The data were analyzed using Levine's test, Shapiro-Wilko test, analysis of covariance test.

The findings indicate that for secure attachment (F=44. 628 and df=1), avoidant attachment (F=28. 168 and df=1), anxious attachment (F=42. 228 and df=1), For the variable of negative over-excitement (F=74. 508 and df=1) and positive over-excitement (F=27. 197 and df=1) as well as for the variable of scary dreams (F=46. 446 and df=1), then From the pre-test control, in the post-test phase, the effect of the group is significant (P<0. 01).

The results of the research showed that emotion-oriented intervention has an effect on attachment styles, hyperexcitability and scary dreams in people with complex trauma symptoms