How therapists' emotion recognition relates to therapy process and outcome.
cognitive task
empathy
outcome
process
therapist effect
Journal
Clinical psychology & psychotherapy
ISSN: 1099-0879
Titre abrégé: Clin Psychol Psychother
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9416196
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2022
May 2022
Historique:
revised:
12
10
2021
received:
17
04
2021
accepted:
19
10
2021
pubmed:
2
11
2021
medline:
18
6
2022
entrez:
1
11
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Empathy is an essential characteristic for therapists that explained 9% of the variance in treatment outcomes. Many measures of empathy are based on self-report questionnaires. Therefore, they reflect how a person perceives his empathic abilities, which can be biased from his true abilities. The ability to recognize emotions has been found to be related to empathy and serves as a measure for the use of empathic abilities. In this study, we examined therapists' empathic abilities, using a novel task for recognizing emotions, and looked at how they related to the therapy process and outcomes. The study included 33 patient-therapist dyads. Therapist empathy was assessed with an emotion detection task, the JeFEE. Clients filled questionnaires after each session regarding therapy progress and their symptoms. We found that emotion recognition moderated the change in (a) client secure attachment to therapist, (b) client avoidant attachment to therapist, (c) client working alliance, (d) client rate of tense or upset they felt during the session, (e) client lack of emotional clarity of emotions, (f) client non-acceptance of emotional responses, (g) client overall emotion regulation and (h) client main target complaint. Implication for therapy and therapists' selection and training are discussed.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1001-1019Subventions
Organisme : Israeli Science Foundation (ISF)
Informations de copyright
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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