NGCS/ELAN – Coding movement behaviour in psychotherapy
H Lausberg, H Sloetjes · Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie · 2009 · Heft 02
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Individual and interactive movement behaviour (non-verbal behaviour / communication) specifically reflects implicit processes in psychotherapy [1,4,11]. However, thus far, the registration of movement behaviour has been a methodological challenge. We will present a coding system combined with an annotation tool for the analysis of movement behaviour during psychotherapy interviews [9]. The NGCS coding system enables to classify body movements based on their kinetic features alone [5,7]. The theoretical assumption behind the NGCS is that its main kinetic and functional movement categories are differentially assoc…