Enhancing Psychotherapy Outcomes by Encouraging Patients to Regularly Self-Monitor, Reflect on, and Share Their Affective Responses Toward Their Therapist: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Alberto Stefana   ^{1, 2} , PsyD, PhD ;   Eduard Vieta   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Paolo Fusar-Poli   ^{1, 4, 5} , MD, PhD ;   Eric A Youngstrom   ^{2, 6, 7, 8} , PhD

¹ Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

² Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

³ Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Unit, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAM, University of Barcelona,, Barcelona, Spain

⁴ OASIS Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

⁵ Early Psychosis: Interventions and Clinical-detection Lab, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

⁶ Institute for Mental and Behavioral Health Research, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Division of Child and Family Psychiatry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

⁷ Helping Give Away Psychological Science, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁸ Department of Psychiatry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States