Year: 2007
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The communication of empathic understanding was examined in relation to three quali-ties of therapist interventions (attunement, tentativeness, and meaning exploration) and tested for its relationship to client in-session processing. High and low client-process seg-ments, from sessions of 20 mild-moderately depressed clients treated in brief experiential therapy, were rated for therapist empathy and manner of responding. Client responses were evaluated for depth of experiencing and manner of perceptual processing. Empathy was signifi cantly greater in high than in low client-process segments. Analyses revealed that together the three qualities of therapist interventions predicted level of empathy, but attunement emerged as the sole signifi cant individual predictor. rÉsumÉ La communication d’une compréhension empathique a été étudiée dans son rapport avec trois qualités de l’intervention du thérapeute (la réceptivité, la prudence, et l’exploration du sens) et testée en regard de sa relation avec le processus perceptif chez le client en séance. Des segments de processus perceptif forts et faibles chez le client, tirés de séances avec
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2154176581