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It's not what you said, it's how you said it: An analysis of therapist vocal features during psychotherapy.
Soma, Christina S; Knox, Dillon; Greer, Timothy; Gunnerson, Keith; Young, Alexander; Narayanan, Shrikanth.
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  • Soma CS; Department of Educational Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, (UT) USA.
  • Knox D; Viterbi Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, (CA,) USA.
  • Greer T; Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, (CA,) USA.
  • Gunnerson K; Viterbi Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, (CA,) USA.
  • Young A; Department of Educational Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, (UT) USA.
  • Narayanan S; Viterbi Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, (CA,) USA.
Couns Psychother Res ; 23(1): 258-269, 2023 Mar.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36873916
Psychotherapy is a conversation, whereby, at its foundation, many interventions are derived from the therapist talking. Research suggests that the voice can convey a variety of emotional and social information, and individuals may change their voice based on the context and content of the conversation (e.g., talking to a baby or delivering difficult news to patients with cancer). As such, therapists may adjust aspects of their voice throughout a therapy session depending on if they are beginning a therapy session and checking in with a client, conducting more therapeutic "work," or ending the session. In this study, we modeled three vocal features-pitch, energy, and rate-with linear and quadratic multilevel models to understand how therapists' vocal features change throughout a therapy session. We hypothesized that all three vocal features would be best fit with a quadratic function - starting high and more congruent with a conversational voice, decreasing during the middle portions of therapy where more therapeutic interventions were being administered, and increasing again at the end of the session. Results indicated a quadratic model for all three vocal features was superior in fitting the data, as compared to a linear model, suggesting that therapists begin and end therapy using a different style of voice than in the middle of a session.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article