Verbal Fluency / Emotional Experience

The basic communication skills that link to essential therapy processes

• Building blocks to more complex skills (i.e., verbal fluency as a pre-requisite)
• Little direct therapist psychotherapy process research on therapist fluency.
• Alliance, empathy, building expectations, etc. are achievable process goals that involve a response from the client
• Verbal Fluency and Emotional expression are different in that they are already defined as within the individual therapist’s capacity (no process-to-individual conversion of the skill).
• Important to link verbal fluency to these relational - process goals (e.g., alliance) and not merely as an independent behavior. ​
• Attending to Verbal fluency and emotional expression should build a bridge to other processes. 

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