Table 3.

Example Therapist Talk Turns Assigned by Model for Label Client-Counselor Relations

Five Most Probable Talk Turns
I am asking you questions. I am asking you questions and asking you to look at stuff and you are joking and giggling again.
I guess I could try to explain it again. I’m just wondering if any explanation I give because we - we have - we have discussed what we’re doing in therapy or how this works.
Well you might garner sort of what it feels like just to be able to when I do different things. How it makes you feel that we bring attention to it sometimes. And - and your reactions to it are really important, ‘cause in the outside world, your reactions are going to be telling you what your experience is.
Okay, so let me come back for a second. Because what you are talking about is important and it is a big part of what this impasse that we have been having is all about. I was curious and I am not sure if you answered about the laughing today.
Well no… wait. There is something. We were on the cusp of discussing something really important when this came up? Let me ask you the question more directly. Did you want to discuss this whole thing with [Name] in the session?

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