Trainee psychotherapists' emotion recognition accuracy improves after training: emotion recognition training as a tool for psychotherapy education.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Psychotherapists' emotional and empathic competencies have a positive influence on psychotherapy outcome and alliance. However, it is doubtful whether psychotherapy education in itself leads to improvements in trainee psychotherapists' emotion recognition accuracy (ERA), which is an essential part of these competencies.

Methods

In a randomized, controlled, double-blind study (N = 68), we trained trainee psychotherapists (57% psychodynamic therapy and 43% cognitive behavioral therapy) to detect non-verbal emotional expressions in others using standardized computerized trainings - one for multimodal emotion recognition accuracy and one for micro expression recognition accuracy - and compared their results to an active control group one week after the traini

SUBMITTER: Dollinger L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10402901 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature