Patient-Made Videos as a Tool of Self-Observation Enhancing Self-Reflection in Psychotherapy

Koffert, Tarja; Luutonen, Sinikka; Niemi, Pekka; Tiuraniemi, Juhani; Nordström, Elisa; Keinänen, Matti; Hietala, Jarmo

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“…In outpatient psychotherapy, adopting a new perspective and seeing oneself from the observer's point of view by employing self-observation (Koffert et al 2019) can be helpful. During a psychotherapy session, therapists take on the observer's point of view by focusing their attention on their patients.…”

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Fidgeting Behavior During Psychotherapy: Hand Movement Structure Contains Information About Depressive Symptoms

Reinecke

Dvoretska

Joraschky

et al. 2020

J Contemp Psychother

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Fidgeting may be a motor sign reflecting self-regulation processes in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) and depressive patients. Since SAD co-occurs with comorbid depression, the question arises whether fidgeting is a disorder-unspecific phenomenon or a specific and therefore diagnostically relevant sign of depression. 33 SAD patients with (n = 12) and without (n = 21) depression from the Social Phobia Psychotherapy Research Network project were compared regarding their nonverbal behavior. Four video sequences of a psychotherapy session with each patient were analyzed using a standardized system for the analysis of nonverbal behavior by two independent, certified, blind raters. SAD patients with comorbid depression exhibited significantly more (number/minute) irregular movements, but fewer (number/minute) repetitive movements than SAD patients without depression. Irregular movements, which reflect less structured motor behavior, are associated with comorbid depression in SAD. In contrast, in SAD without depression, more structured repetitive movements were prominent. Thus, irregular movements represent a diagnostically relevant behavior for comorbid depression among SAD patients.

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confidence: 99%

Fidgeting Behavior During Psychotherapy: Hand Movement Structure Contains Information About Depressive Symptoms

Reinecke

Dvoretska

Joraschky

et al. 2020

J Contemp Psychother

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“…The therapist informed the patients that the next session will be about helplessness and instructed them in the following manner: ‘When next time you come across a thing you want to do but cannot accomplish (e.g. related to studies or household work), make a video where you speak freely about what is going through your mind’ (Koffert et al., 2019). The therapist also stressed that it was important that during videoing, the patient was able to speak freely without being disturbed.…”

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“…We have previously developed a video‐assisted method for the facilitation of the psychotherapy process (Koffert et al., 2019; Nordström et al., 2021). Our hypothesis was that the sensory information derived from the video would have an activating effect on the arousal of human emotions in psychotherapy.…”

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Interaction between multisensory information and emotional activation in video‐facilitated psychotherapy

Nordström,

Luutonen,

Paananen

et al. 2023

Couns and Psychother Res

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BackgroundEmotional activation is regarded as central in psychotherapy. We have developed a method called VideoTalk, in which patients video themselves at home according to the therapist's instructions, and the videos are watched together in the therapy session. The aim of the study was to find out whether watching and listening to a video in psychotherapy readily activates the patient's emotions.MethodsThe video material was analysed by theory‐based content analysis using the interacting cognitive subsystems (ICS) theory. The ICS theory suggests a link between sensory information and emotions and describes two levels of meaning: propositional and implicational. The implicational level gains information from the propositional level and directly from perceptions and is central to the activation of emotions. Five patients participated in our schema therapy‐based intervention. Our material included videos of 10 therapy sessions, in which the patient and the therapist watched a video made by the patient at home in a state of helplessness. Watching the video in the session was performed in parts, and between watching periods, there were observation phases consisting of discussion about what the patient had seen and heard on the video and how it affected them. Our data included 38 observation phases, and in 35 of these, the patient verbalised an emotion after watching the video. The implicational level was involved in almost all observation phases in which the patient verbalised emotions.ResultsOur findings are in line with the hypothesis that added multisensory information via video enhances input to the implicational level and therefore emotional activation in psychotherapy. This is a possible mechanism by which the use of VideoTalk could facilitate the psychotherapy process.

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“…We have previously developed a video-assisted method for the facilitation of the psychotherapy process (Koffert et al, 2019;Nordström et al, 2021). Our hypothesis was that the sensory information derived from the video would have an activating effect on the arousal of human emotions in psychotherapy.…”

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Interaction Between Multisensory Information and Emotional Activation in Video-Facilitated Psychotherapy

Nordström¹,

Luutonen²,

Paananen³

et al. 2023

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Emotional activation is regarded as central in psychotherapy. We have developed a method called VideoTalk, where patients video themselves at home according to the therapist’s instructions, and the videos are watched together in the therapy session. The aim of the study was to find out whether watching and listening to a video in psychotherapy readily activates the patient's emotions. The video material was analyzed by theory-based content analysis using the Interactive Cognitive Subsystems (ICS) theory. The ICS theory suggests a link between sensory information and emotions and describes two levels of meaning: propositional and implicational. The implicational level gains information from the propositional level and directly from perceptions and is central to the activation of emotions. Five patients participated in our schema therapy-based intervention. Our material included videos of ten therapy sessions, where the patient and the therapist watched a video made by the patient at home in a state of helplessness. Watching the video in the session was done in parts, and between watching periods there were observation phases consisting of discussion about what the patient had seen and heard on the video and how it affected them. Our data included 38 observation phases, and in 35 of these the patient verbalized an emotion after watching the video. The implicational level was involved in almost all observation phases where the patient verbalized emotions. Our findings are in line with the hypothesis that added multisensory information via video enhances input to the implicational level and therefore emotional activation in psychotherapy. This is a possible mechanism by which the use of VideoTalk could facilitate the psychotherapy process.

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Patient-Made Videos as a Tool of Self-Observation Enhancing Self-Reflection in Psychotherapy

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Fidgeting Behavior During Psychotherapy: Hand Movement Structure Contains Information About Depressive Symptoms

Fidgeting Behavior During Psychotherapy: Hand Movement Structure Contains Information About Depressive Symptoms

Interaction between multisensory information and emotional activation in video‐facilitated psychotherapy

Interaction Between Multisensory Information and Emotional Activation in Video-Facilitated Psychotherapy

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