Online Training of Empathic Attunement to Affect

NCT04854161 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: UPC-21-02-Compassi-ON
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 132
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

TThis research wants to observe the effectiveness of an Empathic attunement online training program for psychologists. This training is based on emotion-focused therapy. The present research has one main objective and two secondary objectives. The main objective of is to explore the impact of compassion training as a facilitator of empathic attunement training. For this reason, an experimental design will be conducted, randomly assigning therapists to two training programs on empathy, one of them accompanied by compassion training and the other accompanied by focusing training. Secondary objectives:

• To validate in Spanish three empathy measures, the empathic understanding subscale from Barrett-Lennard´s relational inventory, Watson´s Observation of expressed empathy measure and the empathy subscale made from the Sussex-Oxford Compassion for Others Scale.
• To explore patient variables related to empathy perception, especially the role of self-critic.

Conditions

Empathy

Keywords

Clinical Trial Protocols

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Cognitive and affective empathy test

  TECA; López-Pérez, Fernández-Pinto and Abad, 2008. Scores range from 33 to 132, with higher values reflecting higher empathy.

  5 minutes

• Interpersonal reactivity index

  IRI; Davis, 1980. Scores range from 28 to 140, with higher values reflecting higher empathy.

  5 minutes

• Empathic Understanding of Relationship Inventory

  EU; Barrett-Lennard (1986). Scores range from -48 to 48, with higher values reflecting higher empathy

  3 minutes

• Expressed Empathy Inventory

  Watson, 1999. Scores range from 0 to 9, with higher values reflecting higher empathy

  20 minutes

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Self-Compassion Scale

  5 minutes

• Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

  5 minutes

• Compassion scales of Sussex-Oxford

  5 minutes

Other Outcomes (3)

• Session Rating Scale

  1 minute

• Difficulties in emotional regulation

  5 minutes

• Therapeutic presence

  3 minutes

Study Arms (2)

Compassion and Empathic Attunement to Affect

EXPERIMENTAL

Empathic Attunement to Affect is based on Emotion-Focused Therapy. Compassion training program is based on Compassion Cultivation Training, CCT

Behavioral: Empathic Attunement to Affect Training; Behavioral: Compassion Training

Focusing and Empathic Attunement to Affect

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Empathic Attunement to Affect is based on Emotion-Focused Therapy. Focusing training program is based on Focusing-Oriented Therapy

Behavioral: Empathic Attunement to Affect Training; Behavioral: Focusing Oriented Therapy Training

Interventions

Empathic Attunement to Affect Training BEHAVIORAL

Empathic Attunement to Affect: Empathy and neuroscience Therapeutic Presence Opening receptivity channels Empathic reflections and landscapes (external, meaning and feeling) Types of emotions: Primary (adaptive, maladaptive), Secondary. Emotion Scheme Types of experiential responses: conjectures, exploration. Working with Core emotions Types of experiential responses: Evocation and Empathic affirmation, Empathy and Emotion Productivity Types of experiential responses: Empathic formulation, process suggestion Difficult situations: working on assertive anger and self-soothing Types of experiential responses: Facilitative Congruence

Compassion and Empathic Attunement to Affect; Focusing and Empathic Attunement to Affect

Compassion Training BEHAVIORAL

Compassion Training Introduction to Mindfulness Compassion toward a significant other Compassion toward a generic other Self-compassion Tonglen Compassion toward a difficult other

Compassion and Empathic Attunement to Affect

Focusing Oriented Therapy Training BEHAVIORAL

Focusing-Oriented Therapy training Introduction to focusing Acceptance and empathy as the main focusing attitudes Fels-sense markers Felt sense, handle and resonance Hakomi Therapy The Safe Place. Focusing with a challenging person

Focusing and Empathic Attunement to Affect

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Psychologists with experience in psychotherapy (at least one client)

You may not qualify if:

• Previous empathic attunement training
• Previous Compassion training
• Previous Focusing training

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universidad Pontificia Comillas: lead

Study Sites (1)

Comillas Pontifical University

Madrid, 28049, Spain

Location

Study Officials

• Rafael Jódar Anchía

  Universidad Pontificia Comillas

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Carlota Martín

  Universidad Pontificia Comillas

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 4, 2021
• First Posted: April 22, 2021
• Study Start: March 11, 2021
• Primary Completion: June 20, 2022
• Study Completion: June 20, 2022
• Last Updated: May 12, 2023

Record last verified: 2022-05

Locations

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