Ramseyer, Fabian; Znoj, Hans Jörg; Caspar, Franz (25 September 2015). The temporal evolution of nonverbal synchrony in outpatient psychotherapy: An aggregation of single-case studies (Unpublished). In: Meeting of the European chapter of the Society of Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Klagenfurt. 24.-26.09.2015.
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Objective: The authors quantified nonverbal synchrony—the coordination of patient's and therapist's movement—in a random sample of same-sex psychotherapy dyads. The authors contrasted nonverbal synchrony in these dyads with a control condition and assessed its association with session-level and overall psychotherapy outcome. Method: Using an automated objective video analysis algorithm (Motion Energy Analysis; MEA), the authors calculated nonverbal synchrony in (n = 104) videotaped psychotherapy sessions from 70 Caucasian patients (37 women, 33 men, mean age = 36.5 years, SD = 10.2) treated at an outpatient psychotherapy clinic. The sample was randomly drawn from an archive (N = 301) of routinely videotaped psychotherapies. Patients and their therapists assessed session impact with self-report postsession questionnaires. A battery of pre- and postsymptomatology questionnaires measured therapy effectiveness. Results: The authors found that nonverbal synchrony is higher in genuine interactions contrasted with pseudointeractions (a control condition generated by a specifically designed shuffling procedure). Furthermore, nonverbal synchrony is associated with session-level process as well as therapy outcome: It is increased in sessions rated by patients as manifesting high relationship quality and in patients experiencing high self-efficacy. Higher nonverbal synchrony characterized psychotherapies with higher symptom reduction. Conclusions: The results suggest that nonverbal synchrony embodies the patients' self-reported quality of the relationship and further variables of therapy process. This hitherto overlooked facet of therapeutic relationships might prove useful as an indicator of therapy progress and outcome. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)
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07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Ramseyer, Fabian, Znoj, Hans Jörg, Caspar, Franz |
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100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
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English |
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Adriana Biaggi |
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02 May 2016 15:06 |
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02 Mar 2023 23:27 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/80493 |
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