This 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...
According 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 subsequen...
To analyse 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 process. I moments are the narrative details that occur in psychotherapeutic conversations that are outside the influence of the problematic narrative. This research aims to...
Tese de Doutoramento em Psicologia - Área de Conhecimento em Psicologia da Justiça ; A violência sobre a mulher na intimidade tem sido conceptualizada como uma séria violação dos direitos humanos (cf. Nações Unidas, 2003, Sev’er, Dawson & Johnson, 2004), apesar da forte consciência social da disseminação dessas práticas em diversas regiões do mundo. Para esse progressivo reconhecimento público da violência com...
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