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ERIC Number: EJ734204
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Feb
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-006X
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Clients' Emotional Processing in Psychotherapy: A Comparison between Cognitive-Behavioral and Process-Experiential Therapies
Watson, Jeanne C.; Bedard, Danielle L.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v74 n1 p152-159 Feb 2006
The authors compared clients' emotional processing in good and bad outcome cases in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and process-experiential therapy (PET) and investigated whether clients' emotional processing increases over the course of therapy. Twenty minutes from each of 3 sessions from 40 clients were rated on the Experiencing Scale. A 2 * 2 * 3 analysis of variance showed a significant difference between outcome and therapy groups, with clients in the good outcome and PET groups showing significantly higher levels of emotional processing than those in the poor outcome and CBT groups, respectively. Clients' level of emotional processing significantly increased from the beginning to the midpoint of therapy. The results indicate that CBT clients are more distant and disengaged from their emotional experience than clients in PET.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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