Topic: Therapists who are able to provide a secure base for their patients' explorations, and those who know how to remain emotionally present while managing complex and intense affects, are likely to be those who best facilitate change in their patients. From an attachment perspective, such therapists are also more likely to have secure, rather than insecure attachment organizations. Aim: In this study we ask: Can therapists' attachment classifications predict how they intervene in a given psychotherapy session? Method: In this study, we assessed the state of minds with respect to attachment of 56 therapists. Each of the therapists audio-recorded three consecutive sessions with one of his or her patients. All the session were transcribed verbatim. A subsample of the sessions (N=24, of 8 therapists whose AAI classification was known in advance) were analyzed in order to find discourse markers that distinguished therapists of different attachment classifications. Results: Five scales containing items characteristics of each of the main attachment classifications were developed. There scales were then validated on the rest of the sample (N=48), and we tested their test-retest and inter-rater reliability , as well as their concurrent validity with the AAI. Discussion: Results will be discussed in their clinical and theoretical implications, in light of their importance for both psychotherapy and attachment research.
Therapists' AAI classification predicts therapists' attunement and in-session activity: Introducing the Therapist Attunement Scales (TASc) / Talia, Alessandro; Muzi, Laura; Brambilla, Daniela; Caravaggi, Cecilia; Damiani, Rachele; Matteucci, Arianna; Lingiardi, Vittorio; Taubner, Svenja. - STAMPA. - (2017), pp. 85-85. (Intervento presentato al convegno Society for Psychotherapy Research, 48th Annual International Meeting tenutosi a Toronto, Ontario, Canada nel June 21-24, 2017).
Therapists' AAI classification predicts therapists' attunement and in-session activity: Introducing the Therapist Attunement Scales (TASc)
MUZI, LAURA;LINGIARDI, Vittorio;
2017
Abstract
Topic: Therapists who are able to provide a secure base for their patients' explorations, and those who know how to remain emotionally present while managing complex and intense affects, are likely to be those who best facilitate change in their patients. From an attachment perspective, such therapists are also more likely to have secure, rather than insecure attachment organizations. Aim: In this study we ask: Can therapists' attachment classifications predict how they intervene in a given psychotherapy session? Method: In this study, we assessed the state of minds with respect to attachment of 56 therapists. Each of the therapists audio-recorded three consecutive sessions with one of his or her patients. All the session were transcribed verbatim. A subsample of the sessions (N=24, of 8 therapists whose AAI classification was known in advance) were analyzed in order to find discourse markers that distinguished therapists of different attachment classifications. Results: Five scales containing items characteristics of each of the main attachment classifications were developed. There scales were then validated on the rest of the sample (N=48), and we tested their test-retest and inter-rater reliability , as well as their concurrent validity with the AAI. Discussion: Results will be discussed in their clinical and theoretical implications, in light of their importance for both psychotherapy and attachment research.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
