APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Client-Felt Empathy As a Dynamic Predictor of Worry Reduction in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Crystal Liu
American University - Alice Coyne
American University - Michael Constantino
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Martin Antony
Toronto Metropolitan University - Henny Westra
York University
Abstract
We explored whether dynamic changes in client-felt and/or therapist-offered empathy predict next-session symptom reduction in cognitive behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Results indicated that whereas increases client-felt empathy may be an active driver of subsequent symptom reduction, therapist-offered empathy may be driven by perceptions of prior client improvement.
Psychopathology
