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- Innovative moments and change in client-centered therapyPublication . Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Mendes, Inês; Cruz, Graciete; Ribeiro, António P.; Sousa, Inês; Angus, Lynne; Greenberg, Leslie S.Previous studies have used the Innovative Moments Coding System (IMCS) to describe the process of change in Narrative Therapy (NT) and in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). This study aims to extend this research program to a sample of Client-Centered Therapy (CCT). The IMCS was applied to six cases of CCT for depression to track the Innovative Moments (IMs) which are exceptions to the problematic self-narrative in therapeutic conversation. Results suggest that IMCS can be applied to CCT, allowing the tracking of IMs' emergence. The analysis based on a generalized linear model revealed that the overall amount of IMs is significantly associated with symptom improvement, which is congruent with former studies done with the IMCS.
- Innovative Moments and Change in Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Case of LisaPublication . Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Mendes, Inês; Ribeiro, António P.; Angus, Lynne E.; Greenberg, Leslie S.This article presents an intensive case analysis of a good outcome case of emotion-focused therapy – the case of Lisa – using the Innovative Moments Coding System (IMCS). The IMCS, influenced by White’s narrative therapy, conceptualizes narrative change as resulting from the elaboration and expansion of narrative exceptions or unique outcomes to a client’s core problematic self-narrative. The IMCS identifies and tracks the occurrence of 5 different types of narrative change: action, reflection, protest, re-conceptualization, and performing change. This is the first attempt to use the IMCS with cases outside the narrative tradition. We discuss the results, emphasizing the commonalities and major differences between this case and other good outcome cases.
- Narrative change in emotion-focused psychotherapy: A study on the evolution of reflection and protest innovative momentsPublication . Mendes, Inês; Ribeiro, António P.; Angus, Lynne; Greenberg, Leslie S.; Sousa, Inês; Gonçalves, Miguel M.Innovative moments (IMs) are exceptions to a client's problematic self-narrative in the therapeutic dialogue. The innovative moments coding system is a tool which tracks five different types of IMs-action, reflection, protest, reconceptualization and performing change. An in-depth qualitative analysis of six therapeutic cases of emotion-focused therapy (EFT) investigated the role of two of the most common IMs-reflection and protest-in both good and poor outcome cases. Through this analysis two subtypes (I and II) of reflection and protest IMs were identified, revealing different evolution patterns. Subtype II of both reflection and protest IMs is significantly higher in the good outcome group, while subtype I of both IMs types does not present statistically significant differences between groups. The evolution from subtype I to subtype II across the therapeutic process seems to reflect a relevant developmental progression in the change process.
- Narrative change in emotion-focused therapy: How is change constructed through the lens of the innovative moments coding system?Publication . Mendes, Inês; Ribeiro, António P.; Angus, Lynne; Greenberg, Leslie S.; Sousa, Inês; Gonçalves, Miguel M.The aim of this study was to advance understanding of how clients construct their own process of change in effective therapy sessions. Toward this end, the authors applied a narrative methodological tool for the study of the change process in emotion-focused therapy (EFT), replicating a previous study done with narrative therapy (NT). The Innovative Moments Coding System (IMCS) was applied to three good-outcome and three poor-outcome cases in EFT for depression to track the innovative moments (IMs), or exceptions to the problematic self-narrative, in the therapeutic conversation. IMCS allows tracking of five types of IMs events: action, reflection, protest, reconceptualization, and performing change. The analysis revealed significant differences between the good-outcome and poor-outcome groups regarding reconceptualization and performing change IMs, replicating the findings from a previous study. Reconceptualization and performing change IMs seem to be vital in the change process.