大众媒体上的治疗话语是否不仅仅提供“信息娱乐” ？比较菲尔博士和记录心理治疗中表达的同理心

Television talk shows frequently address psychological difficulties, but their formats and purposes differ from those of recorded psychotherapy sessions. This observational study compared expressed empathy in selected segments of four Dr. Phil episodes and four recorded psychotherapy sessions featuring two practitioners. Using an adapted empathic communication coding scheme, the study coded client-created empathic opportunities and practitioners’ verbal and nonverbal responses. The dataset contained 476 verbal and 324 nonverbal response ratings. Higher mean expressed-empathy scores were observ