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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Timur Guralnik.\n\nTitle: Theoretical and empirical ap
 plications of Dynamical Systems Theory in psychotherapy.\n\nAbstract: \n\nE
 mpirical research on psychotherapy generally supports the efficacy of most 
 evidence-based treatment protocols. However\, this field increasingly produ
 ces conclusions that can be generally described as such: “psychotherapy of 
 a certain type works better for a certain type of disorder\, under conditio
 n X but not condition Y\, but also actually sometimes for condition Y under
  the condition of Z…” and so forth without end. We argue that this stems fr
 om a portrayal of therapy as a deterministic and linear process\, both in t
 heory and in statistical modeling practices. Such a portrayal enerally assu
 mes that if enough information is entered into a statistical model\, more c
 ertainty about the success of psychotherapy can be attained\, and ‘unexplai
 ned variance’ can be eventually gotten rid of. \n\nDynamical Systems Theory
  (DST) puts forward the idea that such determinism is unlikely to exist in 
 biological systems\, and shifts focus to the complex ebb and flow of states
  in time. In this talk\, we will discuss the theoretical and practical appl
 ications of DST for psychotherapy research\,and present a project where att
 ractor reconstruction techniques were used to estimate Lyapunov Exponents i
 n psychotherapy data. These estimates were then used as predictors of patie
 nt symptom change over the course of therapy.
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LOCATION:Morton Hall\, 215
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SUMMARY:AMSOU Graduate Students Seminar - Talk on Dynamical Systems Theory.
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URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/amsou-graduate-students-seminar-talk-on
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