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Clients’ heart rate (HR) was continuously monitored, next-session outcome was assessed with the State Test Anxiety Measure and Outcome Rating Scale.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Clients showed on average an increase in HR during the evoking phase and a decrease during the rescripting phase in the first IR session. These effects reduced in the second IR session. In addition, no latent subgroups were identified. Furthermore, an increase in HR during the evoking phase was significantly associated with lower next-session test anxiety and marginally associated with higher next-session well-being.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The results provide initial evidence that clients’ physiological arousal during the evoking phase of IR might play a role in the effectiveness of IR.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48457,"journal":{"name":"Behaviour Research and Therapy","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 104879"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"The physiological signature of imagery rescripting: Associations between heart rate and session-level outcomes\",\"authors\":\"Jessica Uhl , Wolfgang Lutz , Eshkol Rafaeli\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.brat.2025.104879\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Imagery rescripting (IR) as an emotion-focused technique involves an evoking as well as a rescripting phase, which incorporates cognitive restructuring. 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The physiological signature of imagery rescripting: Associations between heart rate and session-level outcomes
Objective
Imagery rescripting (IR) as an emotion-focused technique involves an evoking as well as a rescripting phase, which incorporates cognitive restructuring. The different components of IR might be characterized by different physiological patterns. The main aim of this study is to test whether clients' physiological arousal during the evoking phase and clients’ physiological arousal during the rescripting phase follows specific patterns and predicts improvement on next-session outcomes.
Methods
The results are based on 108 therapy sessions from an imagery-based treatment with 64 clients with test anxiety. The treatment protocol involves two consecutive IR sessions of past events related to test anxiety. Clients’ heart rate (HR) was continuously monitored, next-session outcome was assessed with the State Test Anxiety Measure and Outcome Rating Scale.
Results
Clients showed on average an increase in HR during the evoking phase and a decrease during the rescripting phase in the first IR session. These effects reduced in the second IR session. In addition, no latent subgroups were identified. Furthermore, an increase in HR during the evoking phase was significantly associated with lower next-session test anxiety and marginally associated with higher next-session well-being.
Conclusion
The results provide initial evidence that clients’ physiological arousal during the evoking phase of IR might play a role in the effectiveness of IR.
期刊介绍:
The major focus of Behaviour Research and Therapy is an experimental psychopathology approach to understanding emotional and behavioral disorders and their prevention and treatment, using cognitive, behavioral, and psychophysiological (including neural) methods and models. This includes laboratory-based experimental studies with healthy, at risk and subclinical individuals that inform clinical application as well as studies with clinically severe samples. The following types of submissions are encouraged: theoretical reviews of mechanisms that contribute to psychopathology and that offer new treatment targets; tests of novel, mechanistically focused psychological interventions, especially ones that include theory-driven or experimentally-derived predictors, moderators and mediators; and innovations in dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices into clinical practice in psychology and associated fields, especially those that target underlying mechanisms or focus on novel approaches to treatment delivery. In addition to traditional psychological disorders, the scope of the journal includes behavioural medicine (e.g., chronic pain). The journal will not consider manuscripts dealing primarily with measurement, psychometric analyses, and personality assessment.