Emotional Expression Predicts Treatment Outcome in Focal Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa: Findings from the ANTOP Study

“LIWC auf Deutsch”: The Development, Psychometrics, and Introduction of DE- LIWC2015

“…Correlates of LIWC-variables go beyond psychological self-report measures and extend onto human coded social interaction and even biomarkers such as gene expression. Some recent examples of topics studied using LIWC include depression / negative emotionality (Tackman et al, 2018), dyadic processes and coping (Karan, Wright, & Robbins, 2017;Neysari et al, 2016;Robbins, Karan, Lopez, & Weihs, 2018), individual differences and personality (Carey et al, 2015), gender and translation (Meier et al, in prep), psychopathology / psychotherapy research (Friederich et al, 2017;Sonnenschein, Hofmann, Ziegelmayer, & Lutz, 2018;Wolf, Chung, & Kordy, 2010;Wolf, Sedway, Bulik, & Kordy, 2007;Wolf, Theis, & Kordy, 2013), pregnancy / prenatal stress (Schoch-Ruppen, Ehlert, Uggowitzer, Weymerskirch, & La Marca-Ghaemmaghami, 2018) and gene expression (Mehl, Raison, Pace, Arevalo, & Cole, 2017). A nice introduction to LIWC research is given by the following book chapters: Boyd and Pennebaker (2015); Boyd (2017b).…”

Process expectations: Differences between therapists, patients, and lay individuals in their views of what works in psychotherapy

“…Although the importance of treatment expectations has been based on solid theoretical grounds (Frank & Frank, 1993), there has been less empirical research assessing its various aspects compared with outcome expectations. Constantino et al (2011) describe treatment expectations as including role expectations (i.e., expectations about the therapists' and clients' expected behaviors), process expectations (i.e., beliefs about how therapy will be subjectively experienced), and duration expectations (i.e., beliefs about how long the treatment will be).…”

“…This debate reflects different perspectives regarding the factors associated with therapeutic success, as broadly argued to include either specific ingredients (such as specific interventions or therapeutic approaches), or common factors present in successful therapies, regardless of the therapeutic approach, such as the client-therapist alliance. Empirical research attesting to the possible mechanisms of change in psychotherapy offers several potential mechanisms, such as the working alliance (Castonguay, Constantino, & Holtforth, 2006;Flückiger, Del, Wampold, & Horvath, 2018), the effect of transference interpretations (Høglend et al, 2008), changes in metacognition (Solem, Håland, Vogel, Hansen, & Wells, 2009), the facilitation of psychological mindedness (Nyklíček, Majoor, & Schalken, 2010), the utilization of hope (Coppock, Owen, Zagarskas, & Schmidt, 2010), the achievement of insight (Kallestad et al, 2010), the ability to express emotions (Friederich et al, 2017), and many more. Nonetheless, most expectation scales pertain to broader aspects of the therapeutic process and do not designate these potential mechanisms as their main target of measurement.…”

Blunted emotion‐modulated startle reflex in anorexia nervosa

“…By helping patients acquiring adaptive strategies of emotional processing, emotional expression, and emotion regulation, the maladaptive mechanism of self‐starvation may become unnecessary over time. Indeed, recent research has shown that the more patients with AN express negative emotions in therapy sessions, the better is their treatment outcome, irrespective of treatment approach (Friederich et al, ).…”