Facilitating dyadic synchrony in psychotherapy sessions: Systematic review and meta-analysis

D Atzil-Slonim, CS Soma, X Zhang, A Paz… - Psychotherapy …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: This paper highlights the facilitation of dyadic synchrony as a core
psychotherapist skill that occurs at the non-verbal level and underlies many other …

Association between nonverbal synchrony, alliance, and outcome in psychotherapy: Systematic review and meta-analysis

S Jennissen, J Huber, B Ditzen… - Psychotherapy …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Research on nonverbal synchrony (NVS) as a core element in the therapeutic
relationship has substantially increased and suggests that NVS influences therapeutic …

Movement synchrony and facial synchrony as diagnostic features of depression: A pilot study

U Altmann, M Brümmel, J Meier… - The Journal of nervous …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
The pilot study investigated with a matched-subjects design whether nonverbal synchrony is
a diagnostic feature for depression and whether it mediates between depression and …

Dynamics of following and leading: association of movement synchrony and depression severity

S Jennissen, A Sandmeir, D Schoenherr… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objective Depression negatively affects interpersonal functioning and influences nonverbal
behavior. Interpersonal theories of depression suggest that depressed individuals engage in …

The influence of vocal synchrony on outcome and attachment anxiety/avoidance in treatments of social anxiety disorder.

D Schoenherr, B Strauss, U Stangier, U Altmann - Psychotherapy, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Research indicates an effect of nonverbal synchrony on the therapeutic relationship and
patients' symptom severity within psychotherapy. However, vocal synchrony research is still …

Change process in coaching: Interplay of nonverbal synchrony, working alliance, self-regulation, and goal attainment

T Erdös, FT Ramseyer - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Psychological literature emphasizes that self-regulation is important as goal
intentions, goal setting, or implementation intention does not automatically result in effective …

Cross-correlation-and entropy-based measures of movement synchrony: Non-convergence of measures leads to different associations with depressive symptoms

U Altmann, B Strauss, W Tschacher - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Several algorithms have been proposed to quantify synchronization. However,
little is known about their convergent and predictive validity. Methods: The sample included …

Associations between sympathetic nervous system synchrony, movement synchrony, and speech in couple therapy

A Tourunen, P Nyman-Salonen, J Muotka… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Research on interpersonal synchrony has mostly focused on a single modality,
and hence little is known about the connections between different types of social …

Movement-based patient-therapist attunement in psychological therapy and its association with early change

B Schwartz, JA Rubel, AK Deisenhofer… - Digital Health, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective Attunement is a novel measure of nonverbal synchrony reflecting the duration of
the present moment shared by two interaction partners. This study examined its association …

Catching a (sine) wave: Temporal dynamics of nonverbal synchrony in social anxiety disorder

H Shatz, M Asher, IM Aderka - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2024 - Elsevier
Individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) experience a range of interpersonal problems
and studies have found that nonverbal synchrony (the coordination between interaction …