IRCT201309299789N2 IRCT 2013-10-03 Research Assistance of Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tabriz Effectiveness of Emotion Focused Therapy on decreasing clinical symptoms in Sexual Victims of Affective Relationships Effectiveness of Emotion Focused Therapy on decreasing clinical symptoms in Sexual Victims of Affective Relationships 2010-09-23 anticipated Complete https://irct.ir/trial/10320 interventional Randomization: N/A, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Single, Purpose: Treatment. N/A Sexual Victims of Affective Relationships. Emotion focused therapy contains 12 sessions (each session 45 minutes) and is done once a week. Each session has a specific program. Therapists are 3 well-experienced and educated psychologists. Emotion focused therapy can be done according to three strategies related to changes: 1 - Accessing and correcting non-adaptive emotional meanings related to fear, anxiety , shame experiences, 2 – access to adaptive emotions which are already inhibited such as anger and sorrow, so that information be integrated to current semantic systems and 3 - providing a corrective personal experience with the therapist. In the case of trauma, Emotion-focused therapy is a semi-structured treatment which is based on experimental model to resolve interpersonal complaints. This treatment stresses to overcome over controlling emotions explicitly, so that clients can engage in emotional expression and resolving issues..