ABSTRACT

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is an empirically supported humanistic treatment that considers clients’ emotional processes as the path to therapeutic change. The present aim was to develop a bibliometric study of EFT articles published in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection. Books and chapters were not included in this research. The bibliometric analysis was performed using Hiscite and VosViewer. Results showed 273 publications on EFT in WoS, the first being in 1994. The most relevant areas were depression and anxiety. The most productive author is Greenberg (n = 56; GCS = 2050). The 51.28% of publications corresponds to the last five years (2016–2020), observing a substantial increase in publications comparing with previous years. It is concluded that EFT is a psychotherapeutic orientation in recent scientific growth, with potential interest for further development in next years. The absence of results in WoS prior to 1994 is a limitation, given the origins of EFT in the 1970s. Extension of this study is recommended, including: publications about emotionally focused therapy, publications from other databases different from WoS, together with books and chapters. The importance of these results is discussed to allow other researchers and professionals to know deeply about the scientific production in EFT and its impact.

摘要

以情绪为中心的治疗 (EFT) 是一种经验支持的人文治疗，将客户的情绪过程视为治疗改变的途径。目前的目标是对发表在 Web of Science (WoS) 核心合集中的 EFT 文章进行文献计量研究。本研究不包括书籍和章节。使用 Hiscite 和 VosViewer 进行文献计量分析。结果显示，WoS 中有 273 篇 EFT 出版物，第一次是在 1994 年。最相关的领域是抑郁和焦虑。最多产的作者是格林伯格（n = 56；GCS = 2050）。51.28% 的出版物对应于过去五年（2016-2020 年），与往年相比，出版物数量大幅增加。得出的结论是，EFT 是最近科学发展中的一种心理治疗方向，未来几年有进一步发展的潜在兴趣。鉴于 EFT 起源于 1970 年代，因此 1994 年之前在 WoS 中没有结果是一个限制。建议扩展本研究，包括：关于情绪集中治疗的出版物、来自不同于 WoS 的其他数据库的出版物，以及书籍和章节。讨论了这些结果的重要性，以使其他研究人员和专业人士能够深入了解 EFT 的科学生产及其影响。