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  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychotherapy Research

Background:

  • Previous studies on depression indicated a link between emotional processing and therapeutic success.
  • The role of emotional processing in complicated grief outcomes remained less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between emotional processing and therapeutic change in complicated grief.
  • To compare emotional processing in cases with good versus poor therapeutic outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • A comparative case study of two patients undergoing grief constructivist therapy.
  • Analysis of emotional processing (Experiencing Scale) and grief-related emotions (Emotions Episodes) in relation to therapeutic outcomes (Inventory of Complicated Grief).

Main Results:

  • The case with a good therapeutic outcome demonstrated greater improvement in emotional processing compared to the poor outcome case.
  • Enhanced emotional processing correlated with a transition from maladaptive to adaptive grief-related emotions.

Conclusions:

  • Higher emotional processing capability may be associated with transforming maladaptive grief emotions.
  • Improved emotional processing appears to be a significant factor in the recovery from complicated grief.