Being with feelings as a recognition practice: developing clients' self-understanding.
OBJECTIVE
How are shifts in clients' self-understanding related to focusing on feelings during therapy sessions?


METHODS
A phenomenological study involving matched-pairs of clients and nurse-therapists using video-cued narrative reflection.


RESULTS
Feelings disclose significance within a therapy session. Dialogical relationships and involvements help clients experience the feelings they are discussing, obtain feedback from therapists, and develop self-understanding.


CONCLUSIONS
Nurse educators should stress the importance of focusing on feelings in a session, and clinicians should practice this skill to facilitate a client's developing self-understanding.
Raingruber
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California State University, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA. bonnie.raingruber@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001364:Awareness; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016555:Matched-Pair Analysis; D008875:Middle Aged; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy