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Emotional experiencing: to facilitate or regulate?

S Wiser1, B Arnow

  • 1Santa Clara University, USA.

Journal of Clinical Psychology
|February 17, 2001
PubMed
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Facilitating client emotional experiencing in therapy can promote therapeutic change. This study explores client and therapist factors that determine when this approach is most effective for positive outcomes.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychotherapy Research
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Decades of research link client emotional experiencing to therapeutic change.
  • The specific variables influencing the effectiveness of facilitating emotional experiencing remain underexplored.
  • Diverse theoretical perspectives support the role of emotion in therapeutic progress.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore clinical and empirical literature on variables influencing the facilitation of client emotional experiencing.
  • To identify client and therapist factors that predict the helpfulness or hindrance of facilitating emotional experiencing.
  • To provide a foundation for understanding when to facilitate client emotional experiencing in psychotherapy.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of clinical and empirical studies.

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  • Synthesis of theoretical perspectives on emotion and therapeutic change.
  • Identification and preliminary analysis of client and therapist variables.

    • Main Results:

    • Empirical evidence suggests a strong correlation between emotional experiencing and therapeutic outcomes.
    • Preliminary client variables may include attachment style and emotional regulation capacity.
    • Preliminary therapist variables may include empathy and therapeutic alliance skills.

    Conclusions:

    • Facilitating client emotional experiencing is a potentially powerful therapeutic tool.
    • Client and therapist characteristics significantly moderate the effectiveness of this technique.
    • Further research is needed to refine the identification of these moderating variables for personalized treatment.