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- Can We Identify Emotion Over-regulation in Infancy? Associations with Avoidant Attachment, Dyadic Emotional Interaction and TemperamentPublication . Martins, Eva Costa; Soares, Isabel; Martins, Carla; Tereno, Susana; Osório, Ana
- Individual and relational contributions to parallel and joint attention in infancyPublication . Osório, Ana; Martins, Carla; Meins, Elizabeth; Martins, Eva Costa; Soares, IsabelThis study examined the contributions of maternal bids for joint attention, relationship quality, and infant characteristics, to individual differences in infants' parallel and joint attention.
- Innovative moments and change in narrative therapyPublication . Matos, Marlene; Santos, Anita; Gonçalves, Miguel; Martins, CarlaNarrative therapy suggests that change happens by paying close attention in therapy to "unique outcomes," which are narrative details outside the main story (White & Epston, 1990). In this exploratory study, unique outcomes were analyzed in five good-outcome and five poor-outcome psychotherapy cases using the Innovative Moments Coding System (Gonçalves, Matos, & Santos, 2008). Across 127 sessions, innovative moments were coded in terms of salience and type. In accordance with the theory, results suggest that innovative moments are important to therapeutic change. Poor- and good-outcome groups have a global difference in the salience of the innovative moments. In addition, results suggest that two particular types of innovative moments are needed in narrative therapy for therapeutic change to take place: re-conceptualization and new experiences. Implications for future research using this model of analysis are discussed.
- The role of mutual in-feeding in maintaining problematic self-narratives: Exploring one path to therapeutic failurePublication . Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Ribeiro, António P.; Stiles, William B.; Conde, Tatiana; Matos, Marlene; Martins, Carla; Santos, AnitaAccording to the author's narrative model of change, clients may maintain a problematic self-stability across therapy, leading to therapeutic failure, by a mutual in-feeding process, which involves a cyclical movement between two opposing parts of the self. During innovative moments (IMs) in the therapy dialogue, clients' dominant self-narrative is interrupted by exceptions to that self-narrative, but subsequently the dominant self-narrative returns. The authors identified return-to-the-problem markers (RPMs), which are empirical indicators of the mutual in-feeding process, in passages containing IMs in 10 cases of narrative therapy (five good-outcome cases and five poor-outcome cases) with females who were victims of intimate violence. The poor-outcome group had a significantly higher percentage of IMs with RPMs than the good-outcome group. The results suggest that therapeutic failures may reflect a systematic return to a dominant self-narrative after the emergence of novelties (IMs).