Withdrawal ruptures in adolescents with borderline personality disorder psychotherapy are marked by increased speech pauses-can minimal responses be automatically detected?
Alliance ruptures of the withdrawal type are prevalent in adolescents with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Longer speech pauses are negatively perceived by these patients. Safran and Muran's rupture model is promising but its application is very work intensive. This workload makes resear...
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| author | Christophe Künsch Lukas Fürer Martin Steppan Nathalie Schenk Kathrin Blum Michael Kaess Julian Koenig Klaus Schmeck Ronan Zimmermann |
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| description | Alliance ruptures of the withdrawal type are prevalent in adolescents with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Longer speech pauses are negatively perceived by these patients. Safran and Muran's rupture model is promising but its application is very work intensive. This workload makes research costly and limits clinical usage. We hypothesised that pauses can be used to automatically detect one of the markers of the rupture model i.e. the minimal response marker. Additionally, the association of withdrawal ruptures with pauses was investigated. A total of 516 ruptures occurring in 242 psychotherapy sessions collected in 22 psychotherapies of adolescent patients with BPD and subthreshold BPD were investigated. Trained observers detected ruptures based on video and audio recordings. In contrast, pauses were automatically marked in the audio-recordings of the psychotherapy sessions and automatic speaker diarisation was used to determine the speaker-switching patterns in which the pauses occur. A random forest classifier detected time frames in which ruptures with the minimal response marker occurred based on the quantity of pauses. Performance was very good with an area under the ROC curve of 0.89. Pauses which were both preceded and followed by therapist speech were the most important predictors for minimal response ruptures. Research costs can be reduced by using machine learning techniques instead of manual rating for rupture detection. In combination with other video and audio derived features like movement analysis or automatic facial emotion detection, more complete rupture detection might be possible in the future. These innovative machine learning techniques help to narrow down the mechanisms of change of psychotherapy, here specifically of the therapeutic alliance. They might also be used to technologically augment psychotherapy training and supervision. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3f8861bb9aab4d709f0b52bc6ea76ff02023-01-25T05:33:16ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-01181e028032910.1371/journal.pone.0280329Withdrawal ruptures in adolescents with borderline personality disorder psychotherapy are marked by increased speech pauses-can minimal responses be automatically detected?Christophe KünschLukas FürerMartin SteppanNathalie SchenkKathrin BlumMichael KaessJulian KoenigKlaus SchmeckRonan ZimmermannAlliance ruptures of the withdrawal type are prevalent in adolescents with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Longer speech pauses are negatively perceived by these patients. Safran and Muran's rupture model is promising but its application is very work intensive. This workload makes research costly and limits clinical usage. We hypothesised that pauses can be used to automatically detect one of the markers of the rupture model i.e. the minimal response marker. Additionally, the association of withdrawal ruptures with pauses was investigated. A total of 516 ruptures occurring in 242 psychotherapy sessions collected in 22 psychotherapies of adolescent patients with BPD and subthreshold BPD were investigated. Trained observers detected ruptures based on video and audio recordings. In contrast, pauses were automatically marked in the audio-recordings of the psychotherapy sessions and automatic speaker diarisation was used to determine the speaker-switching patterns in which the pauses occur. A random forest classifier detected time frames in which ruptures with the minimal response marker occurred based on the quantity of pauses. Performance was very good with an area under the ROC curve of 0.89. Pauses which were both preceded and followed by therapist speech were the most important predictors for minimal response ruptures. Research costs can be reduced by using machine learning techniques instead of manual rating for rupture detection. In combination with other video and audio derived features like movement analysis or automatic facial emotion detection, more complete rupture detection might be possible in the future. These innovative machine learning techniques help to narrow down the mechanisms of change of psychotherapy, here specifically of the therapeutic alliance. They might also be used to technologically augment psychotherapy training and supervision.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280329 |
| spellingShingle | Christophe Künsch Lukas Fürer Martin Steppan Nathalie Schenk Kathrin Blum Michael Kaess Julian Koenig Klaus Schmeck Ronan Zimmermann Withdrawal ruptures in adolescents with borderline personality disorder psychotherapy are marked by increased speech pauses-can minimal responses be automatically detected? PLoS ONE |
| title | Withdrawal ruptures in adolescents with borderline personality disorder psychotherapy are marked by increased speech pauses-can minimal responses be automatically detected? |
| title_full | Withdrawal ruptures in adolescents with borderline personality disorder psychotherapy are marked by increased speech pauses-can minimal responses be automatically detected? |
| title_fullStr | Withdrawal ruptures in adolescents with borderline personality disorder psychotherapy are marked by increased speech pauses-can minimal responses be automatically detected? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Withdrawal ruptures in adolescents with borderline personality disorder psychotherapy are marked by increased speech pauses-can minimal responses be automatically detected? |
| title_short | Withdrawal ruptures in adolescents with borderline personality disorder psychotherapy are marked by increased speech pauses-can minimal responses be automatically detected? |
| title_sort | withdrawal ruptures in adolescents with borderline personality disorder psychotherapy are marked by increased speech pauses can minimal responses be automatically detected |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280329 |
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