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Influence of Husbands on the Outcome of their Agoraphobic Wives' Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

K. Oatley  and
D. Hodgson
K. Oatley*
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
D. Hodgson
Affiliation:
Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex
*
∗Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Building, Glasgow G12 8RT
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Abstract

Of 30 agoraphobic married women undertaking home-based behaviour therapy, 15 each had a female friend as co-therapist and 15 had their own husband as co-therapist. At 12 months follow-up, women spent a mean of approximately 40 minutes a day more outside the home alone than at baseline. Women assisted by female friends made somewhat more behavioural gains than those assisted by husbands. Women in both groups whose husbands had been more depressed 2 months after the beginning of therapy did less well at 6 months. Husbands who become more depressed may retard their wives' progress in therapy, but the effect was small, and was outweighed by other considerations.

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 150 , Issue 3 , March 1987 , pp. 380 - 386
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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