title: Verbal response modes and psychotherapeutic technique.
abstract: This paper presents a taxonomy of verbal response modes and applies that taxonomy to the verbal behavior of psychotherapists of three contrasting schools: client-centered, gestalt, and psychoanalytic. The taxonomy consists of a theoretically based set of classificatory principles that define a mutually exclusive and exhaustive set of modes. Its purpose is to describe dyadic verbal interaction comprehensively and quantitatively. Such description is a necessary first step in investigating the therapeutic effectiveness of different interaction styles.
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D005864:Gestalt Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D009629:Person-Centered Psychotherapy; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012650:Self Disclosure; D014705:Verbal Behavior