Affective Dyadic Behavior, Core Conflictual Relationship Themes, and Success of Treatment

Anstadt, Thomas; Merten, Joerg; Ullrich, Burkhard; Krause, Rainer

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“…In support of a bi-directional view of positive regard is the finding that when therapists and clients demonstrate affiliative behaviors in their interactions with one another outcome is improved (Muran, Samstag, Jilton, Batchelder, & Winston, 1997). This finding has been extended further through research looking at the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT: Luborsky & Crits-Christoph, 1998) where a number of studies have indicated that affective reciprocity is related to outcome, although interestingly, this relation is stronger for negative rather than positive emotions (Anstadt, Merten, Ullrich, & Krause, 1997). A conclusion from this finding is that mutual experiencing of conditions is a more reliable predictor of outcome than the precise valence of the affective environment.…”

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Mutuality in person-centered therapy: A new agenda for research and practice

Murphy

Cramer

Joseph

2012

Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies

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Rogers (1957) hypothesized that, if two people are in psychological contact, and when the client is incongruent and minimally perceives the therapist's empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence, this would be necessary and sufficient for constructive personality change. In this paper we propose that this research hypothesis, while a helpful one for testing theory, has inadvertently resulted in only a partial exploration of the process of person-centered psychotherapy insofar as it conceptualizes the therapeutic relationship as the provision of empathy and unconditional positive regard from the therapist to the client. Therefore, research has tended to focus only as far as client perception of the therapist conditions and little attention has been paid to the process of and requirements for ''receiving'' the conditions. In other writings, however, Rogers (1959) described the therapeutic relationship as consisting of bi-directional, reciprocal, and mutual interaction between client and therapist. Receiving the conditions is a worthwhile area for research and study and can inform the development of practice. We suggest that for the conditions to be actively received the contribution of the client to the therapeutic relationship has to be considered. The result is a new hypothesis in which experiences of mutuality are realized as a result of the client, in addition to the therapist, experiencing increasing levels of empathic understanding and unconditional positive regard. The paper concludes that person-centered psychotherapy is inherently relational and we highlight the potential and implication for mutual relating within person-centered psychotherapy.

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Mutuality in person-centered therapy: A new agenda for research and practice

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Joseph

2012

Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies

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“…One successful strategy an interviewer may use to handle negative emotions is to show affects complementary to the patient's (Anstadt et al, 1997;Merten et al, 1996). This may re-establish variability in the emotional interplay.…”

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“…Therapists who managed to maintain variation in their facial affective repertoire were found to have a better psychotherapy outcome (Merten & Krause, 2003). Their primary facial affective expressions were complementary to the patient's (Anstadt, Merten, Ullrich & Krause, 1997;Merten, Anstadt, Ullrich, Krause & Buchheim, 1996).…”

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Emotional interplay and communication with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia

Bergman¹

2009

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Emotional interplay and communication with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia was studied in clinical interviews. Fifty-one video recorded interviews were conducted by two psychologists with nine patients. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in three successive studies. Study I examined the communicative interplay on an overall level, including verbal and nonverbal means of communication. The interviewer's willingness to explore and pursue the emotional content in the patient's narrative was found to be important for establishing well functioning communication. In Study II, the stability over time of facial affective expressions in the emotional interplay was evaluated, using EMFACS. For the patients, no substantial changes in the amount of affects were found across all the interview occasions, although for one interviewer, contempt slightly increased. Whereas previous findings found contempt to be the most frequent affect in patients, in the present material disgust was as common, but depended on the interviewer. Study III investigated gaze behaviour and facial affective expressiveness. The objective was to test whether patients reduced their negative facial affectivity during mutual gaze. The patients were found to not reduce their negative facial affectivity during the state of mutual gaze. This finding was independent of both interview occasion and interviewer and implies that the patients might have intended to communicate negative facial affectivity to the interviewer. The research suggests that the emotional interplay is dominated by the negative facial affective expressions of mainly disgust and contempt. It is proposed that these negative affects may be connected to a patient's low self-esteem, as the self in schizophrenia may be engrained by self-disgusting and self-contemptive affective experiences. The interviewer's capacity to respond to these negative facial expressions must therefore be considered as important.

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“…Reflecting on this question, I started to reflect on the importance to treatment of phenomena such as prosody, facial affect, body language, humor, and the therapist's overall genuineness. These qualities, so hard to capture even in transcribed materials (and so inadequately denoted in phrases such as "common factors"), are central to the therapist's art (Anstadt, Merten, Ullrich & Krause, 1997;Weinberger, 1995).…”

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On Tone, Play, and Healing: Commentary on Riordan's Case Studies

McWilliams

2012

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The clinical work reported by Riordan (2012) is discussed, with attention to prosody (tone) and other subjectively inferred aspects of his therapeutic style with narcissistically troubled clients. Consideration is also given to cultural contexts relevant to understanding the reported increase in narcissistic problems in contemporary patients, the personality and genuineness of the therapist as factors in psychological healing, and the role of play and playfulness in reducing the suffering of clients who rely on narcissistic defenses to compensate for a fragile, erratic, or unrealistic sense of self-esteem. The focus throughout is on the less specifiable, more artistic elements of the psychotherapy process.

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Affective Dyadic Behavior, Core Conflictual Relationship Themes, and Success of Treatment

Cited by 51 publications

References 5 publications

Mutuality in person-centered therapy: A new agenda for research and practice

Mutuality in person-centered therapy: A new agenda for research and practice

Emotional interplay and communication with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia

On Tone, Play, and Healing: Commentary on Riordan's Case Studies

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