Narrative Assessment in Psychotherapy: A Constructivist Approach

Botella, Luís; Gámiz, María Luz

doi:10.1002/9781119953616.ch11

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“…In fact, as already discussed, our data validate that there is not a single subdimension that surpasses all others, but a cluster of them showing sensitiveness to therapeutic process and outcome. Our results in this study confirm again that (as already found in Botella & Gámiz, 2011) two narrative dimensions not included in Moreira, Beutler, and Gonçalves' (2008) study (i.e., redemption sequences and narrative position of the self as a victim) distinguished poor outcome patients' narratives from good outcome ones.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…1190Gonçalves' study ( -1191, our previous one (Botella & Gámiz, 2011) and the ones obtained in this study, it is confirmed again that changes in patients' narrative structural coherence are found throughout the therapeutic process and it seemed to be able they differentiate positive outcome cases from negative/poor outcome cases. We cannot affirm however, as Moreira, Beutler, and Gonçalves (2008) did that integration appeared to be the most discriminative subdimension between positive and negative/poor outcome cases, nor that content multiplicity was the dimension for which the highest level of change was obtained whereas the lower level of change obtained was for process complexity.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Our results (see Botella & Gámiz, 2011) also indicated that two narrative dimensions not included in Moreira, Beutler, & Gonçalves' (2008) study (i.e., redemption sequences and narrative position of the self as a victim) distinguished poor outcome patients' narratives from good outcome ones.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…In a previous study (Botella & Gámiz, 2011) we compared 12 patients undergoing psychotherapy (five with good therapeutic outcome and seven with poor therapeutic outcome) in all of the relevant dimensions just mentioned. Moreira, Beutler, and Gonçalves (2008) conducted a similar study three years before and they found that good outcome cases presented a higher statistically significant total narrative change than poor outcome cases.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Narrative assessment. To assess the selected dimensions of clients' generated narratives in psychotherapy discussed in the introductory section of this paper, we used the Narrative Assessment Grid (NA-Grid; Botella & Gámiz, 2011). The NA-Grid is devised as a series of rating scales that combine the narrative dimensions already mentioned, i.e.…”

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Procesos Narrativos en Psicoterapia: diferencias entre clientes con buen y mal resultado

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This paper compares 30 patients with good therapeutic outcome to 30 with poor therapeutic outcome in terms of the differential distribution of (1) Intake Variables (2) Outcome and Process Variables, and (3) Narrative Variables. Results indicated that psychosocial functioning, motivation, pre-therapy symptoms, Working Alliance, total number of therapy sessions, total pre-post symptom reduction, and mean scoring for total working alliance in sessions 3, 4, and 8 discriminated between both groups. Results also showed that almost all narrative variables except some of them discriminated good outcome clients from poor outcome ones from the beginning, midpoint and final stage of their therapeutic process. These results are discussed according to their relevance for clinical practice.

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Bridging constructivism and social constructionism: The journey from narrative to dialogical approaches and towards synchrony.

Vall¹

2016

Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

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This article is written on behalf of the Marvin R. Goldfried SEPI 2014 New Researcher Award. Thus, it entails a reflection on the journey that I have taken in my research while trying to establish some conceptual and methodological bridges between constructivism and social constructionist approaches. First, the importance of bridging for psychotherapy integration is highlighted, as are the basic assumptions of constructivism and social constructionism that make integration possible. Second, different empirical studies that I have conducted are reviewed and their results discussed. Third, the project I am currently working on, which is fully integrative in itself and represents a bridge among my previous research focus, is presented. Finally, some considerations are drawn up regarding three different aspects of bridging: what is important to bridge, how we can bridge, and why we should bridge.

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Studies on clients' language processes in psychotherapy have focused on specific non-narrative aspects rather than on narrative processes. This study's goal was to test the commonalities and differences between a group of narratives from 15 depressed patients and 14 anxious patients. Patients' narratives were obtained through self-characterizations written by the client and, were analyzed by means of the Narrative Assessment Grid -a combination of narrative analysis dimensions. Results indicated that both groups could be distinguished by six of the 22 dimensions assessed: (a) Variety of characters, (b) Objectifying, (c) Intelligibility/Clarity, (d) Cognitive Subjectifying, (e) Metaphorizing; and (f) Intelligibility/Stability. Clinical implications of our results are discussed.

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Narrative Assessment in Psychotherapy: A Constructivist Approach

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

Procesos Narrativos en Psicoterapia: diferencias entre clientes con buen y mal resultado

Procesos Narrativos en Psicoterapia: diferencias entre clientes con buen y mal resultado

Bridging constructivism and social constructionism: The journey from narrative to dialogical approaches and towards synchrony.

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