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The Measurement of Empathy and Its Efficacy in Psychotherapy

NCT00620009 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2008-02-21

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Summary

The purpose of the research is to: 1) to test whether psychotherapy including immediate feedback of empathy data is more efficacious than therapy without such an exchange of data, 2) to measure the degree of accuracy of therapist's empathy and its relationship to the patient's estimate of the therapist's empathy.

Conditions

  • Psychotherapeutic Processes
  • Transference (Psychology)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Empathy Feedback

Discussion of empathy ratings between patients and therapists during psychotherapy sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Illinois at Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bhaskar N. Sripada, M.D. · University of Illinois at Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-06-30
Primary Completion
2007-06-30
Completion
2007-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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