Effectiveness of Emotion Focused Therapy on Emotional Dysregulation, Hopelessness and Suicidal Ideation in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Veterans

Aims: Emotion-Focused Therapy is a short-term intervention which can target a constellation of disturbances characterized as complex PTSD stemming from war. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of treatment focused emotion on emotional dysregulation, hopelessness and suicidal ideation in post-traumatic stress disorder veterans.
The research method was semi experimental (with pre-and post-test) with a control group. 50 war veterans with PTSD based on sampling methods were selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The data were collected by checklist- military and, Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSSI) and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). Eight 1/5 hours emotion focused therapy sessions were conducted in experimental group. Data was analyzed by SPSS 23 software using multi-variable covariance analysis.
Findings: The effects of pretest stage having been controlled, the mean posttest scores of the groups were significantly different in emotional dysregulation, suicidal ideation and hopelessness (p Teaching emotion focused therapy can reduce emotional dysregulation, suicidal ideation and hopelessness in posttraumatic stress disorder veterans.