Narrative and emotion integration in psychotherapy: Investigating the relationship between autobiographical memory specificity and expressed emotional arousal in brief emotion-focused and client-centred treatments of depression

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-26

  Zweig Boritz, Tali ^a   Angus, Lynne ^a   Monette, Georges ^a   Hollis Walker, Laurie ^a   Warwar, Serine ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Depression; Emotion in therapy; Experiential existential humanistic psychotherapy; Narrative; Process research

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SELF DISCLOSURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AROUSAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NONDIRECTIVE THERAPY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; SELF DISCLOSURE;

EID: 79951715033     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2010.504240     Document Type: Article

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