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Therapist and patient speech in cognitive depression therapy: assessment and discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

A Blanchet  and
C Mirabel-Sarron
A Blanchet
Affiliation:
Groupe de Recherche sur la Parole, Université Paris VIII, 2, rue de la Liberté, 93526Saint Denis Cedex
C Mirabel-Sarron
Affiliation:
Clinique des Maladies Mentales et de l’Encéphale, 100, rue de la Santé, 75674Paris Cedex, France
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Summary

This study examines changes in language markers in patient and therapist speech over the course of a 12-session cognitive depression therapy. Sessions 4, 8 and 12 were analyzed for the following clinical and language indices:

– scores on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory.

– relative frequency of predicative verb categories, deictics, modalization and situation markers in patient and therapist speech (propositional analysis). The findings show that language indices change significantly and correlatively with therapeutic change, and can thus serve as one measure of the changes in the patient’s psychological organization brought about by cognitive depression therapy.

Keywords

cognitive therapydepressionpatient-therapist interaction
Type
Short communication
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , 1991 , pp. 147 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1991

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