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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...
Developing a european psychotherapy consortium (EPoC): towards adopting a singl...
Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Lutz, Wolfgang; Schwartz, Brian; Oliveira, João Tiago; Saarni, Suoma E.; Tishby, Orya; Rubel, Julian A.; Boehnke, Jan R.Background: Complementing the development of evidence-based psychological therapies, practice-based evidence has developed from patient samples collected in routine care, addressing questions relevant to patients and practitioners, and thereby expanding our knowledge of psychological therapies and their impact. Implementation of assessments in routine care allows for timely clinical decision support and the col...
Three narrative-based coding systems: Innovative moments, ambivalence and ambiv...
Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Ribeiro, António P.; Mendes, Inês; Alves, Daniela; Rosa, Catarina; Silva, Joana Ribeiro daNarrative and dialogical perspectives suggest that personal meaning systems' flexibility is an important resource for change in psychotherapy. Drawn from these theoretical backgrounds, a research program focused on the identification of Innovative Moments (IMs)—exceptions to the inflexible meaning systems present in psychopathological suffering—has been carried out. For this purpose, three process-oriented codi...
Life Design Counseling outcome and process: A case study with an adolescent
Cardoso, Paulo; Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Duarte, Maria Eduarda; Alves, Daniela; Silva, Joana Ribeiro daThis article aims to explore the relationship between clients' narrative transformation and the promotion of vocational decidedness and career maturity in a mid-adolescent case of Life Design Counseling (LDC). To assess LDC outcomes the Vocational Certainty Scale and the Career Maturity Inventory — Form C were used before and after the intervention. To intensively analyze the process of LDC change two measures ...
Perceived impact of telework on career: validation of the impact of telework on...
Faustino, Divo; Sousa, Marlene; Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Soares, Isabel; Oliveira, João TiagoWorking outside of the employer's physical space using information and communication technology can be labeled as telework. With the Covid-19 pandemic, telework assumed an unprecedented relevance with substantial impact for the future. Therefore, the development of assessment scales that allow a better comprehension of telework is essential. In this study, the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the ...
Eliciting reconceptualization innovative moments to foster change in Career Con...
Cardoso, Paulo; Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Mendes, Inês; Sousa, Inês; Taveira, Maria do Céu; Silva, FilipaThis study tests an add-on procedure to foster change in Career Construction Counseling by eliciting reconceptualization innovative moments. After the career counseling intervention with 42 participants, 21 participants were allocated to the add-on procedure, consisting of two additional sessions focused on eliciting reconceptualization innovative moments In turn, participants in the comparison group attended t...
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...
How reconceptualization of the self is negotiated in psychotherapy: an explorat...
Ribeiro, Eugénia; Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Santos, Beatriz MeloThis case study explores the collaboration that occurs between therapist and client when reconceptualization innovative moments emerge. Reconceptualization innovative moments are exceptions to the problematic self-narrative that brought the client to therapy and are associated with successful psychotherapy. Reconceptualization innovative moments have two main components: a contrast between a past problematic fa...
Emotional processing during the therapy for complicated grief
Pinheiro, Patricia; Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Nogueira, Daniela; Pereira, Rui; Basto, Isabel; Alves, Daniela; Salgado, JoãoObjective: Prior research, mainly conducted on depression, observed that clients' improved capability to process their emotions predicted better therapeutic outcomes. The current comparative study aimed to investigate whether emotional processing was related to therapeutic change in complicated grief. Method: We analyzed two contrasting cases (good or poor outcome) treated with grief constructivist therapy. In ...