Gratitude Turn
A turn in which a user's framing shifts from focusing on what is lacking to acknowledging what is valued, observable as an explicit appreciation statement within the dialogue.
Operational Definition
One occurrence would be coded when a user turn contains an explicit appreciation or gratitude statement that reframes a prior deficit-focused statement. The appreciation-containing turn is the unit of count.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Transcript coding for gratitude-reframing utterances by two raters; reliability via Cohen's kappa; could be reported as a count per session, optionally validated against a short gratitude self-report at participant level.