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- 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.
- Innovative moments and change pathways: A good outcome case of narrative therapyPublication . Santos, Anita; Gonçalves, Miguel; Matos, Marlene; Salvatore, SergioOur aim was to explore the development of innovative moments (i-moments) in therapeutic conversation and to study how they match our heuristic model that accounts for the development of change, drawn from previous empirical research.
- Innovative moments and poor outcome in narrative therapyPublication . Santos, Anita; Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Matos, MarleneAims: To analyze a poor outcome case of narrative therapy with a woman victim of intimate violence. Method: The Innovative Moments Coding System: version 1 was applied to all sessions to track the innovative moments (i-moments) in the therapeutic conversation. I–moments are the narrative details that occur in psychotherapeutic conversations that are outside the influence of the problematic narrative. This research aims to describe the processes involved in meanings’ stability along psychotherapy through a dialogical approach to meaning making. Results: Contrarily to what usually occurs in good outcome cases, re-conceptualization i-moments are absent. Moreover, two specific types of i-moments emerged with higher duration: reflection and protest. Qualitative analysis showed that the potential meanings of these i-moments were surpassed by a return to the problematic narrative. Conclusion: The therapeutic stability seems to be maintained by a systematic return to the problematic narrative after the emergence of novelties, a process that was referred from a dialogical perspective as a mutual in-feeding of voices (Valsiner, 2002), one that emerges in the i-moment and another one that supports the problematic narrative. The problematic narrative is maintained by an oscillation between these two types of voices along therapy.
- Inquérito de vitimação por stalking: Relatório de investigaçãoPublication . Matos, Marlene; Grangeia, Helena; Ferreira, Célia; Azevedo, Vanessa
- Intervenção em grupo com vítimas de violência doméstica: Uma revisão da sua eficáciaPublication . Matos, Marlene; Machado, Andreia; Santos, Anita; Machado, CarlaApós o reconhecimento social, a violência doméstica tem adquirido progressivamente uma expressão significativa nas estatísticas criminais no nosso país. Paralelamente, atendendo aos elevados custos que habitualmente estão associados a esta experiência (e.g., saúde física e psicológica), a actuação de profissionais especializados nesta área foi assumindo cada vez mais relevância, constituindo-se a mulher vítima como um dos principais alvos da intervenção. Nesse contexto, assistiu-se nos últimos anos ao desenvolvimento de diferentes modalidades psicoterapêuticas dirigidas a essa população, entre as quais a intervenção em grupo. O objectivo deste trabalho consiste, pois, em sistematizar o conhecimento actual sobre a eficácia da intervenção em grupo com mulheres vítimas desse tipo de violência, reflectindo criticamente sobre as suas potencialidades. Após uma revisão da literatura internacional (e.g., Cox & Stolberg, 1991; McBride, 2001; Rinfret-Raynor & Cantin, 1997; Tutty, Bidgood, & Rothery, 1993), constata-se que essa é uma das mais comuns modalidades de intervenção facultadas às vítimas, revelando-se útil e com grande impacto junto dessas mulheres (e.g., Trimpey, 1989, citado por McBride, 2001; Tutty et al., 1993). Finalmente, a partir dos estudos disponíveis, apontamos os principais desafios no desenvolvimento de estudos empíricos neste contexto, bem como algumas implicações práticas para a implementação de intervenções em grupo com esta população.
- Narrative Therapy and the Nature Of “Innovative Moments” in the Construction of ChangePublication . Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Matos, Marlene; Santos, AnitaAccording to the narrative metaphor of psychotherapy, clients transform themselves by changing their life stories. According to the narrative therapy of White and Epston (1990), the construction of change occurs from the expansion of unique outcomes, or innovative moments as we prefer to call them, that is, the development of episodes outside the problem-saturated narrative. Unique outcomes operate as exceptions to the rule (i.e., to the problem-saturated story) that can be changed to a new rule (i.e., a new narrative). We suggest that some forms of unique outcomes can operate as shadow-voices (Gustafson, 1992) of the problem-saturated story, allowing a temporary release from the problem, but facilitating a return to it. In our view, there is a particular type of unique outcome —re-conceptualization— that facilitates sustained change. This kind of innovation facilitates the emergence of a meta-level perspective about the change process itself, and in turn, enables the active positioning of the person as an author of the new narrative.
- Riscos associados ao stalking: Violência, persistência e reincidênciaPublication . Grangeia, Helena; Matos, Marlene
- 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).
- Tracking novelties in psychotherapy process research: The innovative moments coding systemPublication . Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Ribeiro, António P.; Mendes, Inês; Matos, Marlene; Santos, AnitaThis article presents a method for the assessment of innovative moments, which are novelties that emerge in contrast to a client's problematic self-narrative as expressed in therapy, the innovative moments coding system (IMCS). The authors discuss the theoretical background of the IMCS as well as its coding procedures. Results from several studies suggest that the IMCS is a reliable and valid coding system that can be applied to several modalities of psychotherapy. Finally, future research implications are discussed.