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Emotional experiencing: To facilitate or regulate?
Author(s) -
Wiser Susan,
Arnow Bruce
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(200102)57:2<157::aid-jclp3>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - psychology , facilitation , session (web analytics) , empirical research , psychotherapist , therapeutic relationship , emotional regulation , cognitive psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , epistemology , philosophy , neuroscience , world wide web , computer science
In the preceding several decades, both empirical research and advances in the theoretical literatures of diverse schools of thought suggest that greater client in‐session emotional experiencing is related to therapeutic change. What has yet to be explored and explicated are the variables that indicate when, and with whom, facilitating emotional experiencing may be most and least helpful. This article offers an exploration of the clinical and empirical literatures that bear on this issue. It also suggests preliminary client and therapist variables that point either toward or away from the therapeutic facilitation of client emotional experiencing. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session 57: 157–168, 2001.