The Measurement of Empathy and Its Efficacy in Psychotherapy

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Psychotherapeutic Processes, Transference (Psychology)

In brief

The purpose of the research is to: 1) to test whether psychotherapy including immediate feedback of empathy data is more efficacious than therapy without such an exchange of data, 2) to measure the degree of accuracy of therapist's empathy and its relationship to the patient's estimate of the therapist's empathy.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00620009

Run by

University of Illinois at Chicago

People needed

16

Starts

2002-06-01

Expected to finish

2007-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2008-02-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Outpatient psychotherapy at University of Illinois at Chicago
• Age 18-65

You may not qualify if…

• Psychosis
• Suicidality
• Organic Brain Disorder

Where it is running

• University of Illinois at Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.