SEPI Jeremy Safran Memorial Poster Award

APA Division 29’s Jeremy Safran Memorial Poster Award was developed in collaboration with the SEPI is awarded by Division 29 to recognize an outstanding poster presented during the annual SEPI poster session. This year the award went to doctoral student Galit Paysechov for her poster entitled The Ability of Nonverbal Synchrony to Serve as a Marker of Alliance Ruptures. She presented her poster with a demand video at our online annual SEPI meeting that was held in June 2021. Galit studies in Israel in Haifa. In her abstract Galit wrote that a promising predictor of alliance quality and ruptures is nonverbal synchrony. Delving into processes that constitute the alliance, as alliance ruptures, may shed light on these inconsistent findings. The present study aimed to examine whether nonverbal synchrony can serve as an automatic marker of alliance ruptures. She found that nonverbal synchrony significantly was associated with confrontational ruptures, suggesting that moments of especially high nonverbal synchrony during a rupture are important, It appears to mark moments when the therapist makes great efforts to be attentive to a confrontational patient. You can click on the links to see her video, the poster abstract and the actual poster. Congratulations Galit!

Click here to check out Galit's poster and click here to read her poster abstract.

Watch Galit's presentation here.

Meital Bendet, as lead author, is recognized with the Jeremy Safran Memorial Poster Award for her poster entitled "What Expert Supervisors Do: Findings from First Use of the Supervisory Intervention Scale – Observer Version (SIS-o)," co-authored by Benjamin Feldman, Jennifer Rich, Hanna Levenson, and Katie McGovern.

Click here to check out Meital's poster.