NCT03498638

Feasibility Study of Couple Therapy Treatment for Situational Couple Violence

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to understand whether the couple therapy that is used in practice is effective in preventing situational couple violence. More specifically, investigators will focus on couples with mild to moderate forms of situational couple violence to investigate how couples therapy can be effective in preventing the escalation and recurrence of situational couple violence. For this purpose, the response of partners to therapy will be investigated by integrating self-report questionnaires and psycho-physiological markers of emotion.

Conditions

• Violence, Domestic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Couples Therapy	Couples in the intervention group will receive couples therapy for 8 weekly sessions. Each therapy session will last approximately an hour. All therapies will be conducted by the PI, Dr. Gunnur Karakurt. Dr. Karakurt is a Licenced Marriage and Family Therapist and AAMFT (American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy) approved clinical supervisor. All therapies will be conducted as a couple. Training on stress management and safety planning will be performed as individuals. There will not be any group sessions. The goal of couple therapy is to help and improve couples' capacity to regulate emotions, solve problems, and communicate through therapy with the couple together.
OTHER	Control	Couples in the control group will be taught safety planning, given information on local resources to help victims of violence, and will be instructed in stress and anger management strategies. Following this 8 week period, they will receive 8 weeks of couple therapy unless they choose not to.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-19
• Primary completion: 2017-05-24
• Completion: 2017-05-24
• First posted: 2018-04-17
• Last updated: 2026-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States