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The meaning in loss protocol: A clinical trial of online grief therapy
Batista, João; Alves, Daniela; Pires, Nuno; Silva, Joana Ribeiro da; Mendes, Inês; Magalhães, Carina; Rosa, Catarina; Oliveira, João TiagoFor a minority of the bereaved, the loss of a significant other can trigger an overwhelming emotional reaction and impaired functioning across life domains, known as prolonged grief disorder (PGD). Hence, ongoing efforts have been made to refine existing treatments to increase their efficacy and to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of grief reactions. This study presents the results of an open clinical trial of th...
Validation of the Portuguese version of the Integration of Stressful Life Exper...
Albuquerque, Sara; Henriques, Mariana; Rosa, Pedro Joel; Delalibera, Mayra; Neimeyer, Robert A.; Coelho, Alexandra; Batista, JoãoThe Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES) evaluates the ability to integrate stressful experiences into one's meaning system. This study aimed to validate ISLES for the Portuguese population, utilizing a sample of 242 adults who had lost a significant other. The sample was predominantly female, educated, married, or in consensual unions, and actively employed. Confirmatory factor analysis reve...
Does meaning-making mediate COVID-19 restrictions’ impact on grief and psycholo...
Batista, João; Albuquerque, Sara; Delalibera, Mayra; Oliveira, João T.; Coelho, AlexandraThe COVID-19 pandemic imposed substantial restrictions on funeral ceremonies,profoundly affecting grief experiences. This study investigated the mediating role ofmeaning-making in the relationship between these restrictions and prolonged griefdisorder (PGD) symptoms, anxiety, depression, and trauma. A longitudinal studyinvolving 141 bereaved individuals was conducted, with assessments at two time points:3–6 mon...
Tracking Narrative Change in Post-intervention Focus Groups for Teachers: an ex...
Silva, Joana; Batista, João; Fernández-Navarro, Pablo; Ferreira, Helena; Palmeira, Lara; Albuquerque, Isabel; Galhardo, Ana; Cunha, MarinaReliable and systematic qualitative methodologies to assess participants’ change after group interventions are scarce. This study outlines a methodolo5gical approach to use in focus groups, allowing the elicitation and coding of participants’ change talk after a group intervention. A Change Elicitation Script for Focus Groups was developed and its viability for evoking participants’ discussion around change was...
What Can Therapists Learn from Coding Therapy Sessions? Interviewing Clinicians...
Fernández-Navarro, Pablo; Batista, João; Silva, Joana Ribeiro daInnovative Moment Coding System (IMCS) has influenced their clinical practice. Participants, that worked both as researchers and therapists, were interviewed using a semi-structured script written for the current study. The interviews explored whether or not coding psychotherapy sessions (participants’ research experience with innovative moments; IMs) had impacted their clinical practice. A descriptive–interpre...
Does "story-making" have the potential to engage prosumers around a higher educ...
Rodrigues, Paola Stumpf; Batista, João; Simões, DoraThe transformations in the online environment have raised new challenges to the relationship between brands and their audiences, so it is necessary to explore new communication strategies. One of them is story-making, a technique that has been recently explored by several studies developed in the marketing and communication fields to engage customers around brands. This study draws on some related topics, such ...
Write and let go: an online writing program for university students
Batista, João; Marinai, Janine C.; Gouveia, Melissa; Oliveira, João Tiago; Gonçalves, Miguel M.Background: There are a plethora of studies on expressive writing and positive writing interventions, but few have addressed the combination of both paradigms. Additionally, research on the role of ambivalence toward change in the context of writing-based interventions is lacking. Ambivalence toward change is a natural movement of approaching and avoiding change that may occur in various situations. In psychoth...
Innovative moments in recovered cases treated with the unified protocol for tra...
Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Batista, João; Braga, Catia; Oliveira, João Tiago; Fernandez-Navarro, Pablo; Magalhaes, Carina; Ferreira, Helena; Sousa, InesObjective Innovative moments (IMs) are moments in which the previous problematic pattern of meaning is challenged. Studies have shown that IMs are associated with good psychotherapy outcomes. A three-level hierarchy of IMs was observed in recent studies, with level 1 IMs being more elementary and levels 2 and 3 being more complex and associated with treatment success. However, studies with manualized protocol t...
Studying psychotherapy change in narrative terms: The innovative moments method
Batista, João; Magalhães, Carina; Ferreira, Helena; Fernández-Navarro, Pablo; Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Silva, Joana Ribeiro daThis paper aims to describe the Innovative Moments (IM) Coding System (IMCS), an idiographic and transtheoretical methodology that allows the identification of IMs—markers of changes in the client's initial maladaptive framework of meaning—throughout psychotherapy. The present study introduces the theoretical background underlying this methodology, along with the main empirical findings resulting from former st...
Differences between subclinical ruminators and reflectors in narrating autobiog...
Habermas, Tilmann; Delarue, Iris; Eiswirth, Pia; Glanz, Sarah; Kraemer, Christin; Landertinger, Axel; Krainhoefner, Michelle; Batista, JoãoReasoning may help solving problems and understanding personal experiences. Ruminative reasoning, however, is inconclusive, repetitive, and usually regards negative thoughts. We asked how reasoning as manifested in oral autobiographical narratives might differ when it is ruminative versus when it is adaptive by comparing two constructs from the fields of psychotherapy research and narrative research that are po...