Clinical Mutual Attunement and the Development of Therapeutic Process: A Preliminary Study
| Autor: | Valentina Stoycheva, Wilma Bucci, Alessandro Gennaro, Diego Rocco, Sergio Salvatore |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Rocco, Diego, Gennaro, Alessandro, Salvatore, Sergio, Stoycheva, Valentina, Bucci, Wilma |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
050103 clinical psychology
Linguistics and Language Psychotherapist Social Psychology Process (engineering) Mechanism (biology) 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Psychodynamics Thinking processes Structural equation modeling Attunement Nonverbal communication Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences attunement process psychotherapy Identification (psychology) Psychology |
| Popis: | Despite the identification of many factors that play a central role in the development of the psychotherapy process, there is still a lack of evidence about the basic relational mechanisms that pave the way to its working. In this pilot study, we focus on nonverbal microprocessual attunement as the basic mechanism grounding the displacing of discrete factors in shaping the clinical process. Two single sessions of two short-term psychodynamic treatments, selected respectively from a good- and a poor-outcome treatment, have been coded in terms of patient and therapist speech rate, coordination in ruptures, resolution of the therapeutic alliance, and patient's displayed thinking processes. Two dynamic structural equation models focusing on clinical attunement as a factor able to activate the interplay of the assessed clinical dimensions have been theoretically designed and tested in both cases. The driven theoretical structural equation models fit the data, suggesting a different role of nonverbal attunement... |
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