Webinar
29th September 2023
9.30-12.45

 Italian Version

INNOVATIVE MOMENTS AS CHANGE MARKERS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY:
CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND AND CODING PROCEDURES

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Innovative moments (IMs) are novel narratives related to actions, cognitions, and emotions that represent alternatives to the problems that are the target of the therapeutic work. IMs may occur within psychotherapy sessions, emerging spontaneously or prompted by the therapist’s interventions.

Gonçalves and collaborators (2011, 2023) developed the Innovative Moments Coding System (IMCS), a reliable and validated coding system capable of identifying IMs markers of change within psychotherapy sessions. The system also allows for tracking three levels of IMs, which are hierarchically organized and represent the client’s advancement from dysfunctional to more adaptive meanings. Several studies with different samples and populations have suggested that there is a relationship between the production of IMs and positive outcomes in psychotherapy.

The webinar aims to present the IMCS, its usefulness and applicability in the field of process-outcome research in psychotherapy. It is structured in two parts: the first will address the theoretical background of the IMCS; in the second, the coding procedures will be presented through some examples based on the analysis of transcripts of psychotherapy sessions.

Program

9.30-9.45 - Introduction (Vittorio Lingiardi & Giovanna Esposito)
9.45-11.00 - Theoretical background of the Innovative Moments Coding System - Miguel M. Gonçalves 
11.00-11.30 - Discussion (Moderator: Giovanna Esposito)

11.30-11.45 - Break

11.45-12.30 - Coding Procedures – Rui Braga & Divo Faustino
12.30-12.45 - Discussion and Conclusions (Moderator: Giovanna Esposito)

The webinar is organized by SPR-Italy Area Group.
It is free for SPR and SPR-Italy Area Group members. Other participants NOT members SPR-IAG or SPR: € 30 (VAT included)

The webinar is targeted to clinicians (psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists) and researchers (of the private and the public sector) interested in the study of markers of change in the therapeutic process and in their relationship with the outcome.

Speakers and Moderators:

Miguel Gonçalves, University of Minho (Braga, Portogallo)
Rui Braga, University of Minho (Braga, Portogallo)
Divo Faustino, University of Minho (Braga, Portogallo)
Giovanna Esposito, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Vittorio Lingiardi, Sapienza, Università di Roma

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