Mindfulness has become a salient concept in today’s clinical psychology. It descends from two distinct traditions of thought. The first emerged from research in experimental psychology done by Ellen Langer. The second began with the introduction, by Jon Kabat-Zinn, of Buddhist meditative practices in behavioral medicine. Thus, a millenary spiritual practice that emanates oriental philosophy merged with a body o...
A literatura profissional admite que terapeutas adquirem competências clínicas essenciais através da atuação. Porém os caminhos pelos quais essa aprendizagem se dá foram pouco explorados. Este é o objetivo deste estudo. Entrevistamos 14 terapeutas comportamentais e cognitivo-comportamentais sobre suas experiências de aprendizagem com seus clientes. A análise dos dados foi pautada nos preceitos da Grounded Theor...
The epistemological multiplicity of psychotherapies raises the issue of how to articulate the diversity of knowledge implied. Despite the growing concern of mapping the possibilities of communication between different approaches, doubts remain about the scope of integration and secure criteria for conducting interdisciplinary dialogue. This article aimed to examine possible benefits and pathways to the integrat...
This aim of this interpretive case study was to understand meanings of the experience of illness from the perspective of eight survivors of stroke. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews and qualitative thematic analysis. The experience of stroke generated negative feelings such as fear of death, disability, loss of autonomy and inability to work. Social support of family and religion was es...
The present study deals with the role of the therapist’s feelings and with how these can contribute to the therapeutic process. How can careful discrimination of the feelings of the therapist help make well-directed choices during treatment? With this aim, specific moments in two cases of functional analytic psychotherapy are discussed. The analysis concentrates on the concepts of T1 and T2 that characterize th...
Interpersonal interactions as social processes reflect and influence individuals' mental health. The aim of the study was to verify how marital interactions relate to mental health, and to investigate evidence for the validity of the Checklist for Interpersonal Transactions II (CLOIT-II). Participants were 169 couples from the southeast of the Brazilian state of Goiás, aged between 18 and 55 years ( M = 21; SD ...
While the traditional model emphasises conceptual and rational processing, this study highlights experiential processes in the practice of cognitive behaviour therapy. The study aims to identify therapeutic opportunities in impasses during a difficult treatment. A qualitative case study method examines the treatment of a 38 year old, female client with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Three vignettes illu...
RESUMO O objetivo desta pesquisa foi verificar como o cantor da noite vivencia o seu ambiente de trabalho, por meio de perguntas sobre a relação entre seus cuidados com a voz e o contexto em que trabalha. Foram realizadas trinta entrevistas semi estruturadas com quinze cantores e quinze cantoras que atuam em Goiânia, com idade entre 21 e 49 anos. De uma análise norteada pelos princípios da Grounded Theory, emer...
OBJECTIVES: to evaluate parental stress of mothers of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy; to verify whether parental stress undergoes variations according to the level of motor compromise, the child's phase of life, and sociodemographic variables. METHOD: a cross-sectional, descriptive study, with 223 mothers of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. RESULTS: 45.3% of the mothers presented high...
Positive emotions constitute an important aspect of daily life experience. The existing tradition of experimental research about its effects has att racted litt le att ention. However, this research tradition has been referred to more recently in order to sustain the central role new models of psychotherapy have accorded to positive emotion. The present article turns to this source to review the referred tradit...