- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Child Therapy and Development
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Mental Health via Writing
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
University of Windsor
2016-2025
University of Lausanne
2014-2025
The purpose of this study was to examine observable moment-by-moment steps in emotional processing as they occurred within productive sessions experiential therapy. Global distress identified an unprocessed emotion with high arousal and low meaningfulness. investigation consisted 2 studies part a task analysis that examined clients live video-recorded therapy sessions. Clients both were adults for depression ongoing interpersonal problems. Study 1 the discovery-oriented phase analysis, which...
Objective This study examines if experiencing the sequence of primary maladaptive emotions followed by adaptive in-session predicts therapeutic change and whether this mediates impact therapist emotional reflections on outcomes at post-treatment follow-up.
The study of dynamic and nonlinear change has been a valuable development in psychotherapy process research. However, little advancement made describing how moment-by-moment affective processes contribute to larger units change. purpose this was examine observable sequences emotional processing as they occurred within productive sessions experiential therapy. This article further tested A. Pascual-Leone L. S. Greenberg's (2007) model through reanalysis their data sample 34 which clients...
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)‐informed skills training for borderline personality disorder (BPD) aims at the development of specific emotion regulation in patients, particularly with regard to problematic anger. While effects dialectical have been shown, their processes change are rarely examined. Neacsiu, Rizvi and Linehan (2010) found that patient's self‐reported use was a mediator therapeutic these treatments; however, they no effect From an integrative perspective on anger...
Depth of emotional processing has shown to be related outcome across approaches psychotherapy. Moreover, a specific sequence been postulated and tested in several studies on experiential psychotherapy (Pascual-Leone & Greenberg, 2007). This process-outcome study aims at reproducing the sequential model psychodynamic for adjustment disorder linking these variables with ultimate therapeutic outcome.In this study, 32 patients underwent short-term dynamic On basis reliable clinical change...
Abstract This article provides a conceptual overview of task analysis, which is an inherently multimethod approach. The authors present the method as step-by-step illustrative template for researchers who seek to develop qualitatively rich models change and quantitative measures that correspond these models. current epistemological framework both descriptive causal change. It also offers comparison with other methods inquiry are exclusively qualitative in nature do not explicitly highlight...
A 3-year follow-up was conducted for Relating Without Violence, an emotion-focused group psychotherapy program incarcerated men who have a history of intimate partner violence. This is the only known manualized experiential treatment batterers. sample 66 completed compared to 184 from same prison. Although initial research design quasi-experimental, new procedures were used match groups' averages on all pre-treatment variables. At 7 and 8 months post-release, recidivated by assault and/or...
Abstract This process‐outcome study aims at exploring the role of shame, self‐compassion, and specific therapeutic interventions in psychotherapy for patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). exploratory included a total N = 17 NPD undergoing long‐term clarification‐oriented psychotherapy. Their mean age was 39 years, 10 were male. On average, treatments 64 sessions long (range between 45 99). Sessions 25 36 rated using Classification Affective Meaning States...
To improve the provision of psychotherapy, many countries have now established clinical practice guidelines for treatment specific disorders and mental health concerns. These typically been based on evidence from meta-analyses randomized trials with minimal consideration findings qualitative research designs. This said, there has growing interest in incorporating guideline development processes both stakeholders bodies. In this international collaboration, 19 psychotherapy researchers 10...
The present study examines the role of emotion in self-critical process individuals with anger problems.Self-criticism is a prevalent intra-personal feature which greatly impacts an individual's emotion.So far, it unclear, emotions maladaptive experience when they work through their self-criticism.Using quasi-experimental design, compared n = 23 anger-prone under-graduate students to 22 controls on indices contempt, fear, shame, anger, and global distress, as well access underlying need,...
Research is scarce on the specific strategies therapists use to facilitate emotional processing in clients and when apply them. Objective: This study aims explore how elicit key states deepen process client within sessions of emotion-focused therapy (EFT). Through moment-to-moment observation 26 therapist–client sessions, we analyzed therapists' verbal responses influenced emotion subsequent depth experiencing as a positive in-session outcome. The results revealed two distinct therapist...
It is important to understand the change processes involved in psychotherapies for patients with personality disorders (PDs). One patient process that promises be useful relation outcome of psychotherapy emotional processing. In present process-outcome analysis, we examine this question by using a sequential model processing and additionally taking into account therapist's appropriate responsiveness patient's presentation clarification-oriented (COP), humanistic-experiential form therapy....
Different psychotherapy theories describe process patterns of emotional arousal in contradictory ways. To control both treatment and therapist responsivity, this study sought to test dynamic the negative affect using a controlled experimental expressive writing. There were 261 participants (78% women; M = 21 years old; 56% White) who suffered unresolved traumas randomly assigned an writing task asked write about their deepest thoughts feelings, or control. Participants wrote for 15 min on...