ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Movement Synchrony in the Psychotherapy of Adolescents With Borderline Personality Pathology - A Dyadic Trait Marker for Resilience?
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- Dyadic body competence predicts movement synchrony during the mirror game.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Synchrony in psychotherapy: High physiological positive concordance predicts symptom reduction and negative concordance predicts symptom aggravation.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2023Article
- Adolescent borderline personality traits and dyadic behavior shape mother-adolescent cortisol synchrony.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2023Article
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Abstract
Movement synchrony describes the coordination of body movements. In psychotherapy, higher movement synchrony between therapist and patient has been associated with higher levels of empathy, therapeutic alliance, better therapy outcome, and fewer drop-outs. The current study investigated movement synchrony during the psychotherapeutic treatment of female adolescents with borderline personality disorder. It was hypothesized that there are higher levels of movement synchrony in the analyzed therapy sessions compared to pseudo-interactions. Further, we tested whether higher levels of movement synchrony correlate with stronger patients' symptom reduction and whether higher movement synchrony predicts higher post-session ratings. A total of 356 sessions from 16 completed psychotherapies of adolescent patients with BPD were analyzed. Movement synchrony was assessed with motion energy analysis and an index of synchrony was calculated by lagged cross-correlation analysis. As hypothesized, the findings support higher levels of movement synchrony in therapy sessions compared to pseudo-interactions (Cohen's
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