The therapeutic relationship in emotion-focused therapy.
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Important qualities of the relationship that make it therapeutic are discussed. The relationship is seen as both therapeutic in and of itself and as providing a facilitative environment from specific change processes. The role of the relationship in emotion-focused therapy is discussed within this framework. The relationship in emotion-focused therapy is seen as curative by serving an affect-regulation function, which is internalized over time by the client. This function is accomplished by offering a soothing affect-attuned bond characterized by the therapist's presence and empathic attunement to affect as well as acceptance and congruence. Second, the relationship is seen as functioning as a means to an end by offering an optimal environment for facilitating specific modes of emotional processing. In our view, affect is much more likely to be approached, tolerated, and accepted in the context of a safe relationship.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it