title: Early in-session cognitive-emotional problem-solving predicts 12-month outcomes in depression with personality disorder.
abstract: Therapist-patient verbalizations reveal complex cognitive-emotional linguistic data. How these variables contribute to change requires further research. Emotional-cognitive text analysis using the Ulm cycles model software was applied to transcripts of the third session of psychotherapy for 20 patients with depression and personality disorder. Results showed that connecting cycle sequences of problem-solving in the third hour predicted 12-month clinical outcomes. Therapist-patient dyads most improved spent significantly more time early in session in connecting cycles, whilst the least improved moved into connecting cycles late in session. For this particular sample, it was clear that positive emotional problem-solving in therapy was beneficial.
authors: a Psychology , University of Wollongong , Wollongong , Australia.
authors: Kye L
authors: KL
authors: McCarthy
authors: Erhard
authors: E
authors: Mergenthaler
authors: Brin F S
authors: BF
authors: Grenyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011340:Problem Solving; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D011613:Psychotherapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome