Measuring client-therapist psychophysiology and emotion in psychotherapy /
This study examined the emotional experience of clients and therapists in psychotherapy. Three dyads participated for 8, 11, and 4 sessions. Participant emotions were studied for the middle 3 to 5 sessions for the first two dyads by selecting 1-minute segments using peaks in the clients' and th...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | This study examined the emotional experience of clients and therapists in psychotherapy. Three dyads participated for 8, 11, and 4 sessions. Participant emotions were studied for the middle 3 to 5 sessions for the first two dyads by selecting 1-minute segments using peaks in the clients' and therapists' heart rate as an indicator of possibly emotional moments. Participants viewed videotapes of those segments and reported their emotional experience using the Semantic Affect Manikin (Bradley and Lang, 1994). Case-level analysis supported the validity of this method for selecting and measuring emotional experience. Participant report and analysis of session-level measures of session quality and working alliance suggested that the rating procedure and apparatus for measuring client and therapist heart rate did not interfere with psychotherapy. Participants mostly agreed on the emotional content of the segments, regardless of whether client or therapist heart rate was used to select the segments, suggesting that heart rate did identify uniquely emotional events. Multidimensional scaling supported the criterion validity that the emotion measurement was consistent with the circumplex model of emotions (Russell and Mehrabian, 1977). Exploratory visual analyses supported the hypothesis that clients and therapists share emotional experiences within therapy sessions. Cross-correlations of emotion ratings did not support the hypothesis of a time-lagged relationship between client and therapist emotional experience. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: Counseling Psychology". |
| Physical Description: | x, 109 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-74). |