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- Title
Familienaufstellung als Einzelintervention im Gruppensetting bei chronisch-psychosozialen Konflikten: Kurz-, mittel- und langfristige Wirksamkeit.
- Authors
Hunger-Schoppe1, Christina
- Abstract
Family constellations originated in systemic therapy and are practiced as individual interventions in a group setting. Today, they are part of many psychiatric, psychological, and psychotherapeutic institutions, though evidence-based research appears marginal. Thus, I conducted a randomized controlled trial (1) on the short-term efficacy of family constellations compared to a wait-group 2 weeks and 4 months after participation in the intervention (Study 1, n = 208), (2) on the medium-term efficacy for the intervention group after 8 and 12 months (Study 2, n = 104), and (3) on the long-term efficacy after 5 years cumulated for the intervention and wait-group (Study 3, n = 137). Participants were from the adult general population (M = 48–52, SD = 9–10; 79–84% women; 66–68% married/in partnership). Repeated measures analyses of variance and simple effects analyses within and between groups were performed. Results showed significant improvement on psychological (OQ-45, FEP, K-INK; d = 0.46–0.55) and systemic functioning (EXIS; d = 0.27–0.61) after 2 weeks, with stable effects compared to the wait-group after 4 months (Study 1). The psychological (d = 0.35–0.50) and systemic functioning (d = 0.57–0.61) showed stable effects after 8 and 12 months (Study 2). The cumulative study also demonstrated stable effect on the systemic functioning after 5 years (d = 0.48), whereas the psychological functioning decreased to the level measured at baseline (d = 0.10–0.15; Study 3). Per-protocol analyses supported the intention-to-treat analyses. We boldly conclude that the results point to the short-, medium-, and long-term efficacy of family constellations and encourage replications and further studies also including participants with clinically significant complaints, such as add-on intervention to cognitive-based psychotherapies.
- Subjects
FAMILY constellations (Therapy); FAMILIES
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 2020, Vol 68, Issue 4, p263
- ISSN
1661-4747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1024/1661-4747/a000424