Sala Meeting, edificio 15, piano 3, ore 13:30-14:30

Client emodiversity (analogous to biodiversity in ecosystems) is the variety and relative abundance of emotional experiences a client experiences in an individual or group therapy session. Scholars have proposed that increasing emodiversity is a potential change mechanism in therapy, because higher emodiversity  is linked to better emotional regulation and lower psychopathology. I will discuss an individual therapy study with outpatient adult clients, which shows that client emodiversity mediates the relationship between therapist emodiversity and working alliance. I also report on a group counseling study with Taiwanese youth, which shows that increased emodiversity between pre- and mid-therapy is associated with improved emotional cultivation/regulation between mid- and post-therapy.