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1. Honarian, M., Younesi, J., Shafiabadi, A., & Nafissi, G. (2011, July). The impact of EMDR for decreasing deterministic thinking among couples. Poster presentation at the 12th European Congress of Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey.

Language: English

Format: Conference

Abstract:
The purpose of the current research was to examine the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for decreasing of deterministic thinking among couples. Deterministic thinking is an absolute thought to ignore any probability in incidents and their inferences. It is one of the most important cognitive distortions to sabotage martial satisfaction of couples. Twenty couples were involved in this study who to come for consultation centers from three areas of Tehran (Iran). They were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. The experimental group was exposed to emdr in five weekly 1.5 hour sessions. The dependent variable of this research was evaluated through questionnaire of deterministic thinking (younesi &mirafzal 2007) before and after the treatment. Then the data was analyzed through using an an COVA analysis. The results indicated that the EMDR was effective for decreasing deterministic thinking of couples.

Keywords: Couples  Determinism  

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