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.