scholarly journals Child Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Therapist Pregnancy: Systematic Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Munhoz Driemeier Schmidt ◽  
Marina Bento Gastaud ◽  
Vera Regina Röhnelt Ramires
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Child Psychotherapy ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Therapeutic Setting

Abstract The present study aimed to describe the characteristics of the psychodynamic psychotherapeutic process of a child with a pregnant therapist and to identify possible repercussions of this pregnancy in the treatment. A descriptive, longitudinal study was conducted, based on systematic single case study procedure. The participants were an eight-year-old girl and her therapist who became pregnant during treatment. Forty psychotherapeutic sessions were analyzed through Child Psychotherapy Q-Set procedure. The therapeutic process was divided into four periods related to the therapist’s pregnancy: (1) the therapist was not pregnant; (2) therapist knew of her pregnancy but the topic had not been verbalized; (3) the pregnancy was treated in the therapeutic setting; (4) return of maternity leave. The results demonstrated that the therapist has adopted a less neutral stance, used less limits, and breaks and pauses in treatment were increasingly discussed. It was concluded that the therapist´s pregnancy influences the therapeutic setting in a marked way.

scholarly journals Interaction structures in the psychodynamic therapy of a boy diagnosed with Asperger’s disorder: a single-case study

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Regina Rohnelt Ramires ◽  
Cibele Carvalho ◽  
Fernanda Munhoz Driemeier Schmidt ◽  
Guilherme Pacheco Fiorini ◽  
Geoff Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Outcome Measure ◽  
Child Psychotherapy ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Psychodynamic Therapy ◽  
Mechanisms Of Change ◽  
Rorschach Variables ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

It is important to investigate the outcomes of psychotherapy and, especially, its process. Regarding child psychodynamic psychotherapy, available studies are in smaller numbers. Therefore, we still do not fully know the mechanisms of change in treatments with this age group. The Child Psychotherapy Q-Set (CPQ) was designed to analyze the therapeutic process with children. It permits one to identify interaction structures (i.e., repetitive patterns of interaction) and how they change in the course of a treatment. Based on these assumptions, the aim of this study was to identify and to analyze the interaction structures in the psychodynamic therapy of a boy diagnosed with Asperger’s disorder and possible changes in his psychic organization. A mixed longitudinal study, based on the Systematic Case Study procedure, was performed. Approximately 30 months of the boy’s psychotherapy were analyzed using the CPQ. The Rorschach method was used as the outcome measure. Four interaction structures were identified, using the CPQ: Active, confident and lively child, competing with connected, mentalizing and accepting therapist; Withdrawn and defensive child with uncertain, unresponsive and didactic therapist; Accepting therapist with demanding, provocative and hostile child; and Reassuring, supportive, nondirective therapist with a compliant and not spontaneous child. Two interaction structures varied over time. Some changes in Rorschach variables were detected after two years of treatment.

The synchronization of plan activations and emotion-abstraction patterns in the psychotherapeutic process: A single-case study

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Walter ◽  
Guenter K. Schiepek ◽  
Sven Schneider ◽  
Guido Strunk ◽  
Peter Kaimer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process

scholarly journals The Clinical Use of Photography: A Single Case, Multimethod Study of the Therapeutic Process

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuela Saita ◽  
Carmine Parrella ◽  
Federica Facchin ◽  
Floriana Irtelli
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Referential Activity ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Psychological Pain

This single case study aimed at evaluating the use of a photographic tech-nique (i.e., Spectro Cards) within an eight-session clinical intervention based on the Brief, Intermittent Psychotherapy model developed by Nicholas Cummings (1990). We hypothesized that the use of photography may increase the patient’s Referential Activity (RA), facilitating the linking process between the nonverbal experience and the verbal code. Linguistic analysis of the discursive production of a 36-year-old female patient was conducted according to two different strategies: Measurement of the RA according to the coding system developed by Wilma Bucci (1997a, 1997b), and textual-linguistic analysis supported by the software T-LAB. Our findings revealed that the use of Spectro Cards during each psychotherapeutic session yielded significant changes in the patient’s language, in terms of greater RA values, richer discursive production, and a switch of language focus from physical pain to psychological pain.

Change in psychotherapy: a single case study

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Shapiro ◽  
R. F. Hobson
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Subjective Distress ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Patient Reported

SynopsisIn a single case study of changes during psychotherapy, the patient reported more subjective distress after interviews than before, despite evidence of improvement over six months of a treatment apparently low in ‘therapeutic conditions’. The implications of findings from this and related studies for the psychotherapeutic process are discussed.

scholarly journals The flip side of collaborative alliance: a single-case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Locati ◽  
Pietro De Carli ◽  
Margherita Lang ◽  
Laura Parolin
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Defense Mechanism ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Critical Aspects

The present single case study explored whether a positive collaboration may conceal some of the patient’s dysfunctional interpersonal schemas, hence reflecting a non-authentic collaboration. In particular, we reasoned that conceiving collaborations only as adaptive relations may prevent a comprehensive insight of the therapeutic relationship itself. To explore this possibility, we used an intersubjective approach that emphasizes the integration of specific and non-specific factors in an interdependent way. In particular, we assessed different constructs (i.e. therapeutic alliance, technical interventions, defense mechanism, therapeutic relationship) of the therapeutic process and combined them through statistical methods able to investigate the micro- and macro-analytic processes that define each interaction. Results of a single case study (Sara) showed that the collaborative functioning may hold back many critical aspects, that hardly conciliate with the classic positive definition of collaboration. These findings, therefore, indicate that Sara’s collaborative alliance works mainly as a pseudo-alliance.

Can we learn on Psychotherapeutic Process Dimensions with Single Case Study?

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (118) ◽  
pp. 273-301
Author(s):  
Alejandro Ávila Espada
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Psychotherapy Process ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Psychotherapy Process Research ◽  
Complete Treatment ◽  
Single Case Research ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Adequate Management

Relational psychoanalysis states that an adequate management of the intersubjective processes displayed in psychotherapy are essential to promote effective change. The analysis about some variables of the therapist and patient and the complex and co-determined interaction between them, give us new perspectives on the therapeutic process. This analysis leads us to question some topics and consider from a new view the therapist's functions and the patient's roles within the therapeutic process. A group of researchers in Spain, Argentine, Mexico and Germany have worked along a decade (1997-2008) in the Salamanca-Barcelona-Madrid Project on Psychotherapy Process Research. This project, an study conducting single case research (´The Publicist´ case), along the main phases of complete treatment (up to 200 recorded sessions), have given us the opportunity to adquire a better knowledge on therapeutic process, through the content analysis of sessions and with qualitative data using a wide variety of procedures.  In this paper we are presenting relevant results concerning some inferences on therapeutic process along the whole treatment and their phases. Crossing all the studied dimensions, we propose a comprehensive model of change observed in the case object of study, considering all the approaches, both from quantitative and qualitative methods and process dimensions, both the contributions of the therapist and the patient to psychotherapeutic process. Results are discussed in the light of recent perspectives on active use of counter-transference as a therapist’s tool to improve the psychoanalytic psychotherapy process, controlling negative aspects of countertransference collusions.

Who Has Potatoes?

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-159
Author(s):  
Keith V. Bletzer
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Migrant Work

Migratory farm labor like other forms of migrant work both in and outside agriculture impedes on the opportunity to make choices. The following essay explores particular phases in the life of one man (a single case study) and examines how he considers turning points in his life that led to a long period of substance use, both as an immigrant in the country and as a working man in his home country, followed by a cessation of use and the beginning stages of recovery. / Para el migrante, viajar en busca de trabajo es díficil, ya sea que trabaje en agricultura o en otras labores. Este ensayo examina ciertas etapas en la vida de un hombre (estudio de un solo caso) que examina los cambios que le han ocurrido durante un período en que él consumía grandes cantidades de alcohol en los estados y en su país, seguido por un período de sobriedad (no tomaba alcohol, no usaba drogas) en este país en que él comienza una etapa de rehabilitación.

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