Nonverbal behavior is a central factor influencing the therapeutic relationship. Despite broad
agreement on its importance, empirical studies assessing nonverbal behavior in counseling …

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 …

Objectives: A methodological obstacle for the assessment of psychotherapy process
concerns the compatibility between nomothetic versus idiographic approaches. Using …

We are all constantly going in and out of sync with the people we meet in our lives:
significant others, incidental encounters, and strangers. Synchrony is a ubiquitous …

Findings from the past 5 decades of empirical research on the working alliance suggest its
importance in psychotherapy. Recent studies have sought to identify markers of the alliance …

How important is the timing of the pretreatment evaluation? If we consider mental health to
be a relatively fixed condition, the specific timing (eg, day, hour) of the evaluation is …

Early change is an increasing area of investigation in psychotherapy research. In this study,
we analyzed patterns of early change in interpersonal problems and their relationship to …

Given the importance of the alliance in psychotherapy, nonverbal synchrony has been
suggested as a promising automatic objective marker of its levels and development …

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 …

Objective: The present study implements an automatic method of assessing arousal in vocal
data as well as dynamic system models to explore intrapersonal and interpersonal affect …