Empathy is an essential characteristic for therapists that explained 9% of the variance in treatment outcomes. Many measures of empathy are based on self-report questionnaires. Therefore, they reflect how a person perceives his empathic abilities, which can be biased from his true abilities. The ability to recognize emotions has been found to be related to empathy and serves as a measure for the use of empathic abilities. In this study, we examined therapists' empathic abilities, using a novel task for recognizing emotions, and looked at how they related to the therapy process and outcomes. The study included 33 patient–therapist dyads. Therapist empathy was assessed with an emotion detection task, the JeFEE. Clients filled questionnaires after each session regarding therapy progress and their symptoms. We found that emotion recognition moderated the change in (a) client secure attachment to therapist, (b) client avoidant attachment to therapist, (c) client working alliance, (d) client rate of tense or upset they felt during the session, (e) client lack of emotional clarity of emotions, (f) client non-acceptance of emotional responses, (g) client overall emotion regulation and (h) client main target complaint. Implication for therapy and therapists' selection and training are discussed.

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治疗师的情绪识别如何与治疗过程和结果相关

同理心是治疗师的一个基本特征，它解释了治疗结果差异的 9%。许多同理心的测量都是基于自我报告问卷。因此，它们反映了一个人如何看待他的移情能力，这可能会偏离他的真实能力。已经发现识别情绪的能力与同理心有关，并且可以作为衡量同理心能力使用的指标。在这项研究中，我们检查了治疗师的移情能力，使用一项新的任务来识别情绪，并研究它们与治疗过程和结果的关系。该研究包括 33 名患者-治疗师二人组。通过情绪检测任务 JeFEE 评估治疗师的同理心。客户在每次治疗后填写有关治疗进展及其症状的问卷。我们发现情绪识别缓和了以下变化：(a) 来访者对治疗师的安全依恋，(b) 来访者对治疗师的回避依恋，(c) 来访者工作联盟，(d) 来访者在治疗期间感到紧张或不安的比率，( e) 来访者情绪缺乏清晰的情绪，(f) 来访者不接受情绪反应，(g) 来访者整体情绪调节和 (h) 来访者主要目标投诉。讨论了治疗的意义以及治疗师的选择和培训。(g) 客户整体情绪调节和 (h) 客户主要目标投诉。讨论了治疗的意义以及治疗师的选择和培训。(g) 客户整体情绪调节和 (h) 客户主要目标投诉。讨论了治疗的意义以及治疗师的选择和培训。