Assessing Attachment in Psychotherapy: Validation of the Patient Attachment Coding System (PACS)

Talia, Alessandro; Miller-Bottome, Madeleine; Daniel, Sarah Ingrid Franksdatter

doi:10.1002/cpp.1990

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“…Specifically models that describe micro-processes and use empirically sound and manualized content analysis procedures are promising candidates. Examples of those are ruptures and repairs (Safran et al, 2011 ), innovative moments (Goncalves et al, 2011 ), or the patient attachment coding system (Talia et al, 2017 ).…”

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State of the Art of Interpersonal Physiology in Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review

Kleinbub

2017

Front. Psychol.

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Introduction: The fast expanding field of Interpersonal Physiology (IP) focuses on the study of co-ordination or synchronization dynamics between the physiological activities of two, or more, individuals. IP has been associated with various relational features (e.g., empathy, attachment security, rapport, closeness…) that overlap with desirable characteristics of clinical relationships, suggesting that the relevant studies might provide objective, economical, and theory-free techniques to investigate the clinical process. The goal of the present work is to systematically retrieve and review the literature on IP in the field of psychotherapy and psychological intervention, in order to consolidate the knowledge of this research domain, highlight its critical issues, and delineate possible developments.Method: Following the guidelines by Okoli and Schabram (2010), a systematic literature search was performed in Scopus, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and PubMed databases by means of multiple keyword combinations; the results were integrated with references to the retrieved articles' bibliography as well as to other published reviews on IP.Results: All the retrieved documents reported clinical interactions that are characterized, at least partially, by IP phenomena. They appear to use fragmented and sometimes ambiguous terminology and show a lack of both specific theory-informed hypotheses and sound analytical procedures.Conclusion: Although the psychological nature of IP and its role in the clinical relationship are still mostly unknown, the potential value of a physiology-based measure of implicit exchanges in psychotherapy drives an acceleration in this research field. On the basis of the highlighted critical issues, possible future directions for clinical IP researchers are discussed.

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State of the Art of Interpersonal Physiology in Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review

Kleinbub

2017

Front. Psychol.

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“…In order to advance the study of mentalizing in psychotherapy, in this paper we test two new assessment methods: an in-session RF coding system based on the RF scale developed for the AAI (In-session RF, Talia, Steele, & Taubner, 2015), and the Exploring scale from the Patient Attachment Coding System (PACS, . The PACS is a measure of attachment security based on session transcripts that has recently been validated with the AAI (Slade, 2016;Talia, Miller-Bottome, & Daniel, 2017). The PACS Exploring scale measures a particular component of in-session security: the capacity to communicate about mental states while remaining open to the therapist's feedback.…”

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Mentalizing in the presence of another: Measuring reflective functioning and attachment in the therapy process

Talia

Miller-Bottome

Katznelson

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Psychotherapy Research

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These results suggest that the PACS Exploring scale might be a practical method for assessing RF in psychotherapy research and a way for researchers and clinicians to track patients' RF on an ongoing basis. These results also provide information regarding the ways in which differences in RF manifest during psychotherapy sessions. Clinical or methodological significance of this article Researchers and clinicians can assess patients' mentalizing based on any single psychotherapy transcript, in many therapeutic modalities The Exploring scale of the Patient Attachment Coding System can yield a reliable measure of reflective functioning based on any single psychotherapy transcript, in many therapeutic modalities Client differences in mentalizing manifest in part independently of the therapist's contributions.

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“…Consideramos entonces la inevitabilidad del apego en cualquier relación terapéutica (independientemente del modelo teórico que la sostiene). Esta conclusión lógica desde la teoría, ha encontrado respaldo empírico, por ejemplo con la Patient Attachment Coding System (PACS), un instrumento de evaluación que permite evaluar el despliegue de la relación de apego hacia el terapeuta dentro de la sesión, con independencia del tipo específico de psicoterapia (Talia, Miller-Bottome & Daniel, 2017).…”

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¿en Qué Mejora La Teoría Del Apego Nuestra Práctica Clínica? Es Hora De Recapitular

Rodríguez¹

2020

Pap. Psicol.

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La Teoría del Apego ha hecho contribuciones muy útiles para la intervención psicológica, y exponemos las más relevantes. Partiendo de que la psicoterapia conlleva inevitablemente la activación del sistema de apego, abordamos sus distintas presentaciones en función del estilo de apego, y planteamos algunas recomendaciones para su manejo (responder a necesidades subyacentes, desplegar actitud terapéutica en dos fases, considerar trabajo metacomunicacional, y ser cautos al activar el apego). Exponemos la influencia del apego en la capacidad para relacionarse con las experiencias internas (como fuente de amenaza o como vivencias no accesibles). Consideramos los tres tipos de seguridad buscada tras la activación del apego (física, emocional y cognitiva) y las distintas demandas que imponen en la relación terapéutica. Abordamos las implicaciones de la Teoría del Apego en los procesos de auto-regulación. Finalmente, revisamos brevemente algunas contribuciones adicionales a nivel conceptual, de evaluación y de tratamiento.

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Assessing Attachment in Psychotherapy: Validation of the Patient Attachment Coding System (PACS)

Cited by 51 publications

References 29 publications

State of the Art of Interpersonal Physiology in Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review

State of the Art of Interpersonal Physiology in Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review

Mentalizing in the presence of another: Measuring reflective functioning and attachment in the therapy process

¿en Qué Mejora La Teoría Del Apego Nuestra Práctica Clínica? Es Hora De Recapitular

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