Personal profile
Research interests
- Exploring dyadic interpersonal dynamics in psychotherapy. I am especially fascinated by the exploration of the intrapersonal processes that take place in both
- Clients and therapists, and of the interpersonal processes that occur between them, to better understand change mechanisms in psychotherapy. I have been interested in several factors related to the client (e.g., interpersonal patterns, emotional experience, affect), the therapist (e.g., focus of intervention, personal characteristics) and the therapeutic relationship (e.g., interpersonal patterns of the therapeutic bond, working alliance, ruptures). I have designed studies that systematically explore fundamental aspects of Psychodynamic theory (e.g. transference, countertransference, rigidity/flexibility in self/object representations, progression in treatment from dissociation to dialectics). Together with collaborators I have applied methods developed in dyadic research, such as the Truth & Bias model (T&B; West & Kenny, 2011) and the Actor Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Kenny & Cook, 1999) which capture the dyadic nature of the therapy relationship and enable analysis of session by session data and the examination of temporal patterns of change in psychotherapy.
- Tracing the process of psychotherapy via advanced machine learning techniques. One of the main barriers to psychotherapy process-outcome studies is the limited amount of data available to analyze the process, due to the substantial effort required for human judges to evaluate and code recorded or transcribed sessions. I have been interested in applying computerized coding systems that exploit machine learning and text/audio analysis techniques to enhance the study of process data without losing its depth
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oct 2007 → Jun 2012
Award Date: 30 Jun 2012
Master, Tel Aviv University
Oct 1993 → Jun 1995
Award Date: 30 Jun 1995
Bachelor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Oct 1989 → Jun 1992
Award Date: 30 Jun 1992
Research
- תחומי מחקר
- חקר דינמיקות בין-אישיות דיאדיות בפסיכותרפיה.
- לקוחות ומטפלים, תהליכים בין-אישיים
- מעקב אחר תהליך הפסיכותרפיה באמצעות טכניקות של למידת מכונה.
- Fields of Interest
- Exploring dyadic interpersonal dynamics in psychotherapy
- Clients and therapists
- Tracing the process of psychotherapy via advanced machine learning techniques
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A Clinical Leadership Lens on Implementing Progress Feedback in Three Countries: Development of a Multidimensional Qualitative Coding Scheme
Douglas, S., Bovendeerd, B., van Sonsbeek, M., Manns, M., Milling, X. P., Tyler, K., Bala, N., Satterthwaite, T., Hovland, R. T., Amble, I., Atzil-Slonim, D., Barkham, M., de Jong, K., Kendrick, T., Nordberg, S. S., Lutz, W., Rubel, J. A., Skjulsvik, T. & Moltu, C., Jan 2025, In: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 52, 1, p. 11-27 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Associations between interpersonal synchrony and clients’ perception of session quality are moderated by depression severity
Stolowicz-Melman, D., Atzil-Slonim, D., Paz, A., Bar-Kalifa, E., Gilboa-Schechtman, E. & Feldman, R., 6 Mar 2025, (Published Online) In: Psychotherapy Research.Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Clients’ and therapists’ parasympathetic interpersonal and intrapersonal regulation dynamics during psychotherapy for depression
Goren, O., Paz, A., Bar-Kalifa, E., Gilboa-Schectman, E., Wolff, M. & Atzil-Slonim, D., Jun 2025, In: Psychotherapy Research.Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Reliability and Validity of the Emotional Processing Self-Report
Fisher, H., Sened, H., Falkenström, F., Rafaeli, E., Kalifa, E. B., Watson, J. & Slonim, D. A., Jun 2025, In: Psychotherapy. 62, 2, p. 191-207 17 p.Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Combining Hierachical VAEs with LLMs for clinically meaningful timeline summarisation in social media
Song, J., Chim, J., Tsakalidis, A., Ive, J., Atzil-Slonim, D. & Liakata, M., 2024, The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024. Ku, L.-W., Martins, A. & Srikumar, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 14651-14672 22 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review