抑郁是当今世界最常见的心理疾病之一。儿童情感忽视现象广泛存在且对个体影响巨大，许多童年遭受养育者情感忽视的个体在成年后遭受着抑郁的困扰。 研究者招募并筛选了1位具有轻中度抑郁症状和童年被情感忽视经历的成人来访者，开展13次情绪聚焦疗法框架下的咨询。咨询全程分为建立安全信任的咨访关系、探索童年情感忽视经历相关的痛苦情绪、转化情绪并形成新的自我概念和叙事3个阶段。研究者采用BDI-II量表对来访者的抑郁症状进行前后测，了解干预前来访者抑郁症状的内容、严重程度以及干预后来访者抑郁症状的改变；同时在咨询全程采用PHQ-9量表监测来访者抑郁症状的变化。咨询结束后，来访者的抑郁症状有明显改善，在PHQ-9和BDI-II量表中的得分显著下降，并维持在正常值范围内。在2个月后的随访中，来访者呈现出更好的情绪应对和生活状态，证明了情绪聚焦疗法干预童年遭受情感忽视成人抑郁症状的有效性和适配性。此外，研究者根据咨询过程，总结了这一疗法的文化适应性。

Depression is the most prevalent mental disease in the world today. Children's emotional neglect is widespread and has a great impact on individuals. Many individuals who experienced childhood emotional neglect suffer from depression in adulthood. A case study was conducted to introduce the process of using Emotion Focused Therapy to intervene the depressive symptoms of adults with emotional neglect experiences. Researchers recruited an adult with mild to moderate depressive symptoms and childhood experience of emotional neglect to conduct 13 counseling sessions within the framework of Emotion Focused Therapy. The whole process of counseling is divided into three stages: establishing a safe therapeutic relationship, exploring the painful emotions associated with childhood emotional neglect, transforming emotions and forming new self-concept and narrative. Researchers used the BDI-II scale to measure the depressive symptoms of the client before and after the intervention, to understand the content and severity of the depressive symptoms of the client before the intervention and the change after the intervention. PHQ-9 scale was used to monitor the changes of the depressive symptoms of the client during the whole counseling sessions. By the end, the depressive symptoms of the client relieved, and the scores in the PHQ-9 and BDI-II scales decreased significantly to the normal range. During the follow-up 2 months later, the client showed better emotional coping and life status, which demonstrated the effectiveness and adaptability of Emotion Focused Therapy in the intervention of depressive symptoms in adults suffering from childhood emotional neglect. In addition, according to the counseling process, the researchers summarized the cultural adaptability of the therapy.