Narrative change in emotion-focused therapy: How is change constructed through the lens of the innovative moments coding system?

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 692-701

  Mendes, Inês ^a   Ribeiro, António P ^a   Angus, Lynne ^b   Greenberg, Leslie S ^b   Sousa, Inês ^a   Gonçalves, Miguel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Innovative moments; Narrative change; Process research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CODING; COUNSELING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; CLINICAL CODING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARRATION; NONDIRECTIVE THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650064707     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2010.514960     Document Type: Article

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