ArticlePsychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research2020
Coregulation of therapist and client emotion during psychotherapy.
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objectiveClose interpersonal relationships are fundamental to emotion regulation. Clinical theory suggests that one role of therapists in psychotherapy is to help clients regulate emotions, however, if and how clients and therapists serve to regulate each other's emotions has not been empirically tested. Emotion coregulation - the bidirectional emotional linkage of two people that promotes emotional stability - is a specific, temporal process that provides a framework for testing the way in which therapists' and clients' emotions may be related on a moment to moment basis in clinically relevant ways.
methodUtilizing 227 audio recordings from a relationally oriented treatment (Motivational Interviewing), we estimated continuous values of vocally encoded emotional arousal via mean fundamental frequency. We used dynamic systems models to examine emotional coregulation, and tested the hypothesis that each individual's emotional arousal would be significantly associated with fluctuations in the other's emotional state over the course of a psychotherapy session.
resultsResults indicated that when clients became more emotionally labile over the course of the session, therapists became less so. When changes in therapist arousal increased, the client's tendency to become more aroused during session slowed. Alternatively, when changes in client arousal increased, the therapist's tendency to become less aroused slowed.
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