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Online Training of Empathic Attunement to Affect

NCT04854161 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 132

Last updated 2023-05-12

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Summary

TThis research wants to observe the effectiveness of an Empathic attunement online training program for psychologists. This training is based on emotion-focused therapy.

The present research has one main objective and two secondary objectives. The main objective of is to explore the impact of compassion training as a facilitator of empathic attunement training. For this reason, an experimental design will be conducted, randomly assigning therapists to two training programs on empathy, one of them accompanied by compassion training and the other accompanied by focusing training.

Secondary objectives:

* To validate in Spanish three empathy measures, the empathic understanding subscale from Barrett-Lennard´s relational inventory, Watson´s Observation of expressed empathy measure and the empathy subscale made from the Sussex-Oxford Compassion for Others Scale.
* To explore patient variables related to empathy perception, especially the role of self-critic.

Conditions

  • Empathy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Empathic Attunement to Affect Training

Empathic Attunement to Affect: Empathy and neuroscience Therapeutic Presence Opening receptivity channels Empathic reflections and landscapes (external, meaning and feeling) Types of emotions: Primary (adaptive, maladaptive), Secondary. Emotion Scheme Types of experiential responses: conjectures, exploration. Working with Core emotions Types of experiential responses: Evocation and Empathic affirmation, Empathy and Emotion Productivity Types of experiential responses: Empathic formulation, process suggestion Difficult situations: working on assertive anger and self-soothing Types of experiential responses: Facilitative Congruence

BEHAVIORAL

Compassion Training

Compassion Training Introduction to Mindfulness Compassion toward a significant other Compassion toward a generic other Self-compassion Tonglen Compassion toward a difficult other

BEHAVIORAL

Focusing Oriented Therapy Training

Focusing-Oriented Therapy training Introduction to focusing Acceptance and empathy as the main focusing attitudes Fels-sense markers Felt sense, handle and resonance Hakomi Therapy The Safe Place. Focusing with a challenging person

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad Pontificia Comillas

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rafael Jódar Anchía · Universidad Pontificia Comillas

  • Carlota Martín · Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-03-11
Primary Completion
2022-06-20
Completion
2022-06-20

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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