Levels of emotional awareness during psychotherapy among gynecologic cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Emotional awareness is the ability to recognize, describe, and attend to emotions. A known correlate is emotional processing, the ability to orient to and use inner experiences for information. The goal was to examine emotional awareness during therapy among gynecologic cancer patients, identify baseline predictors, and explore the relationship between in-session emotional awareness and processing.

Method

Psychotherapy and baseline data from a randomized controlled trial comparing a supportive counseling (SC) intervention and a cognitive-behavioral coping and communication (CCI) intervention were used. The sample was patients with gynecologic cancers randomized to either therapy (N = 246). Emotion episode transcripts from the first, middle, and sixth of seven in-pe

SUBMITTER: Virtue SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8370270 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature