A crucial component of successful counseling and psychotherapy is the dyadic emotion co-regulation process between patient and therapist that unfolds moment to moment during therapy sessions. The major reason for the disappointing progress in understanding this process is the lack of appropriate methods to assess subjectively experienced emotions continuously during therapy sessions without disturbing the natural flow of the interaction. The resulting inability has forced the field to focus on patients' overall emotion ratings at the end of each session with limited predictive value of the dyadic interplay between patient and therapist's emotional states within each session. The current tutorial demonstrates how couple research-confronted with a comparable problem-has overcome this issue by (i) developing a video-based retrospective self-report assessment method for individuals' continuous state emotions without undermining the dyadic interaction and (ii) using a validated statistical tool to analyze the dynamical process during a dyadic interaction. We show how to assess emotion data continuously, and how to unravel self-regulation and co-regulation processes using a Latent Differential Equation Modeling approach. Finally, we discuss how this approach can be applied in counseling psychology and psychotherapy to test basic theoretical assumptions about the co-creation of emotions despite the conceptual differences between couple dyads and therapist-patient dyads. The present method aims to inspire future research activities examining systematic real-time processes between patients and therapists. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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从夫妻研究中可以学到什么：检查面对面互动中的情绪共同调节过程。

成功的咨询和心理治疗的一个重要组成部分是患者和治疗师之间的二元情绪共同调节过程，在治疗过程中时时刻刻都在展开。在理解这个过程方面进展令人失望的主要原因是缺乏适当的方法来在治疗过程中连续评估主观体验的情绪而不干扰交互的自然流动。由此产生的无能迫使该领域专注于每次治疗结束时患者的整体情绪评级，而对每次治疗中患者和治疗师情绪状态之间的二元相互作用的预测价值有限。本教程展示了面对类似问题的夫妻研究如何通过 (i) 在不破坏二元交互的情况下开发基于视频的回顾性自我报告评估方法来评估个人的持续状态情绪，以及 (ii) 使用经验证的统计工具，用于分析二元交互过程中的动态过程。我们展示了如何连续评估情绪数据，以及如何使用潜在微分方程建模方法解开自我调节和协同调节过程。最后，我们讨论了如何将这种方法应用于咨询心理学和心理治疗中，以测试关于情绪共同创造的基本理论假设，尽管夫妻二人和治疗师 - 患者二人之间存在概念差异。本方法旨在激发未来的研究活动，检查患者和治疗师之间的系统实时过程。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。