Cosima Locher

Dados Biográficos

ID7955198
NOMECosima Locher
PRENOMESCosima
SOBRENOMELocher
ASSINATURALOCHER C
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Basel
ORCID0000-0002-9660-0590
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2019
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • Lay Perspectives on Empathy in Patient-Physician Communication

    Open AccessHeike Gerger, Thomas Münder et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    Research indicates that patients consider empathy as a key factor contributing to the quality-of-care. However, ambiguities in the definition of this multidimensional construct complicate definite conclusions to-date. Addressing the challenges in the literature, and using a hypothetical physician-patient interaction which explored patient-perceived differences between expressions of affective empathy, cognitive empathy, compassion and no empathy,…

  • Replication crisis and placebo studies

    Charlotte Blease, Ben Colagiuri et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2023

    A growing body of cross-cultural survey research shows high percentages of clinicians report using placebos in clinical settings. One motivation for clinicians using placebos is to help patients by capitalising on the placebo effect’s reported health benefits. This is not surprising, given that placebo studies are burgeoning, with increasing calls by researchers to ethically harness placebo effects among patients. These calls propose placebos/pla…

  • Machine Learning in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Education

    Open AccessCharlotte Blease, Anna Kharko et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: There is increasing use of psychotherapy apps in mental health care. Objective: This mixed methods pilot study aimed to explore postgraduate clinical psychology students' familiarity and formal exposure to topics related to artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) during their studies. Methods: In April-June 2020, we conducted a mixed-methods online survey using a convenience sample of 120 clinical psychology students enro…

  • Placebos Are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem. An Exemplification of the Case of Antidepressants in Pediatric Chronic Pain Conditions

    Open AccessCosima Locher, Jens Gaab et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    OPINION article Front. Psychiatry, 21 January 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00998

  • What are the Key Characteristics of a ‘Good’ Psychotherapy? Calling for Ethical Patient Involvement

    Open AccessHeike Gerger, Antje Frey Nascimento et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    Our arguments support the tendency that can be observed in health care in recent years towards more active patient involvement across different health-care domains, but also in clinical research. This article offers an ethical perspective on the question what defines a 'good psychotherapy', which, hopefully, will help to leave behind some of the ongoing psychotherapy debates and move the field forward

  • The Healing Encounters and Attitudes Lists (Heal)

    Open AccessHeike Gerger, Sarah Buergler et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    Introduction: Over the last years, the interest in understanding health improvements that occur due to non-specific treatment effects, rather than in response to the specific active treatment ingredients, increased. Nevertheless, investigations on patients' idiosyncratic perspectives on the non-specific aspects of the healing encounter or of the treatment itself that contribute to placebo effects are still rare. The Healing Encounters and Attitud…

  • Attitudes About Informed Consent

    Open AccessCharlotte Blease, Charlotte R Blease et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    Background: Ethical informed consent to psychotherapy has recently been the subject of in-depth analysis among healthcare ethicists. Objective: This study aimed to explore counseling and psychotherapy students' views and understanding about informed consent to psychological treatments. Methods: Two focus groups were conducted with a total of 10 students enrolled in a Masters course in counseling and psychotherapy at a British university. Question…

  • The Other Side of the Coin

    Open AccessCosima Locher, Helen Koechlin et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019

    Psychotherapy and placebo have a long history, and both have been shown to have significant and clinically meaningful effects. In the last 100 years and up to today, psychotherapy has been subject to an enduring and often heated debate about its mechanisms and its possible relationship to placebos and their effects. However, there is little awareness of the placebo effects' counterpart-nocebo effects (from Latin "I will harm")-in the context of p…