These patients were randomized to one of three conditions: Sixteen weeks of manualized Tele-Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (T-CBT), a control condition Tele-Supportive Emotion Focused Therapy (T-SEFT) or a control condition that provided no treatment.
The whole family must be supportive and avoid emotion elevation as much as it can.
Weissman and colleagues [ 6] found a significant relationship between caregiver emotions and supportive behaviours toward the patient, and when caregivers showed a more sympathetic attitude towards patients they also made a greater effort to help them cope with their condition.
That is, caregivers (not necessarily the biological mother) recognize signs of distress in the child, are emotionally available, provide a "safe haven" and validate children's emotions in supportive ways.
Some others need the ability to use emotional words: patient emotions recognitions, replications, discriminations and supportive responses.
Self-reported sleep was assessed during a randomized controlled trial (Ehlers et al., 2014) comparing CT-PTSD (delivered weekly or intensively over 7-days) with emotion-focused supportive therapy, and a waitlist.
Anke Ehlers at the University of Oxford and her colleagues randomly assigned 121 patients with PTSD (about 60% female, 40% male) either to a seven-day course of intensive CBT; weekly sessions of CBT for three months; a type of psychotherapy known as emotion-focused supportive counselling; or to a 14-week waiting list.
Emotion-focused supportive therapy was shown to the effective (superior to wait list).
Another trial (Ehlers et al., in preparation) that was not available at the time of the review compared emotion-focused supportive therapy, which shares many of the active elements of PCT and allowed patients to decide what they wanted to talk about, with Cognitive Therapy for PTSD (a form of TFCBT).
Prototypes of interactive computer systems have been built that can begin to detect and label aspects of human emotional expression, and that respond to users experiencing frustration and other negative emotions with emotionally supportive interactions, demonstrating components of human skills such as active listening, empathy, and sympathy.
