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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...
FIND: A Feedback Initiated Narrative Development Protocol to elicit resources i...
Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Fernandez-Navarro, Pablo; Magalhaes, Carina; Braga, Catia; Milhazes, Andreia; Batista, João; Neimeyer, Robert A.The FIND (Feedback Initiated Narrative Development) protocol was designed to foster the availability of clients' resources in psychotherapy. This protocol consists of two brief interviews and an observation of an early psychotherapy session, centered on the elicitation of the client's personal resources. The contents of both the interviews and the observed session are summarized for clients and therapists in th...
Studying psychotherapy change in narrative terms: the innovative moments method
Batista, João; Silva, Joana Maria Ribeiro; Magalhaes, Carina; Ferreira, Helena; Fernandez-Navarro, Pablo; Gonçalves, Miguel M.This 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...
Reviewing working memory training gains in healthy older adults: A meta-analyti...
Teixeira-Santos, Ana C.; Moreira, Celia S.; Magalhaes, Rosana; Magalhaes, Carina; Pereira, Diana R.; Leite, Jorge; Carvalho, Sandra; Sampaio, AdrianaThe objective of this meta-analytic review was to systematically assess the effects of working memory training on healthy older adults. We identified 552 entries, of which 27 experiments met our inclusion criteria. The final database included 1130 participants. Near- and far-transfer effects were analysed with measures of short-term memory, working memory, and reasoning. Small significant and long-lasting trans...