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Six in-depth clinical interviews, involving six elderly female patients (aged 60+) and one female psychiatrist, were recorded and analysed for a number of prosodic accommodation variables. Our analysis focused on pitch, speaking time, and vowel-space ratio. Findings indicate that there is a dynamic manifestation of prosodic accommodation over the course of the interactions. There is clear adaptation on the part of the psychiatrist, even going so far as to have a reduced vowel-space ratio, mirroring a reduced vowel-space ratio in the depressed patients. Previous research has found a reduced vowel-space ratio to be associated with psychological distress; however, we suggest that it indicates a high level of adaptation on the part of the psychiatrist and needs to be considered when analysing psychiatric clinical interactions.
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These patients comprised of people who had recorded suicide notes and people who had subsequently made potentially lethal suicide attempts.
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Vaughan, B., De Pasquale, C., Wilson, L., Cullen, C., Lawlor, B. (2018). Investigating Prosodic Accommodation in Clinical Interviews with Depressed Patients. In: Cipresso, P., Serino, S., Ostrovsky, Y., Baker, J. (eds) Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health. MindCare 2018. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 253. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01093-5_19
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