Abstract

MALDAVSKY, David et al. Applications of the frequency distributions of wishes in speech acts of patients and therapist, in clinical research, using the David Liberman algorithm. Subj. procesos cogn. [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.2, pp.28-43. ISSN 1852-7310.

Aim: to show the usefulness in research of frequency distributions of the wishes in the patients' and therapists' speech acts. Conclusions: the application of the frequency distributions proves to be useful for clinical quanti-qualitative studies of the patient-therapist exchange, of the patient's clinical change during the course of the treatment and of the changes in the therapist's interventions.

Keywords : Speech acts; Frequency distribution; Clinical research.

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