Browsing by Author "Dagnino, Paula"

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    Analysis of verbalized emotions in the psychotherapeutic dialogue during change episodes
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2010) Valdes, Nelson; Dagnino, Paula; Krause, Mariane; Perez, Janet C.; Altimir, Carolina; Tomicic, Alemka; de la Parra, Guillermo
    As described by many theorists, emotional expressions contribute to the activation and regulation of personal emotional experiences and communicate something about internal states and intentions. These emotional expressions can be observed in the words used in our speech and nonverbal behaviors, even when nonverbal behaviors are synchronized to one's own speech or to the speech of others. Using a quantitative and qualitative methodology, this article reports a classification of verbal emotional expressions of both psychotherapists and patients in change episodes. Assuming that the emotions loaded in linguistic contents are explicit emotions shown by emotion words, this methodology allows for a complete and differentiating assessment of affective qualities in both patients and psychotherapists during the psychotherapeutic dialogue.
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    Associations between patient personality, symptomatic change and therapy dropout
    (2022) Immel, Nina; Dagnino, Paula; Hunger-Schoppe, Christina
    Background: Studies show that 16% to 77% of psychotherapy patients abandon therapy within the first sessions. The aim of this study is to examine how patient personality variables, specifically the patients' structural integration and the personality traits dependency and self-criticism, are associated with symptomatic change and therapy dropout.
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    Clients', therapists', and observers' agreement on the amount, temporal location, and content of psychotherapeutic change and its relation to outcome
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2010) Altimir, Carolina; Krause, Mariane; de la Parra, Guillermo; Dagnino, Paula; Tomicic, Alemka; Valdes, Nelson; Carola Perez, J.; Echavarri, Orietta; Vilches, Oriana
    Clients', therapists', and observers' identification of change was studied in 27 therapeutic processes, and agreement on the amount, temporal location, and content of change was related to outcome. Results show that clients reported more changes in successful therapies. Client-therapist temporal match of change moments was low irrespective of outcome. Results from all three perspectives were consistent in that manifestation of new behaviors and emotions was the most representative content of change among all therapies. Meanwhile, client-therapist agreement on the frequency of grouped change indicators reported was associated with positive outcome, whereas client-observer agreement was related to negative outcome. Therapists and observers agreed in both successful and nonsuccessful therapies. The relationship between agreement and therapeutic outcome is discussed in relation to each dimension of analysis.
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    Language and therapeutic change: A speech acts analysis
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008) Reyes, Lucia; Aristegui, Roberto; Krause, Mariane; Strasser, Katherine; Tomicic, Alemka; Valdes, Nelson; Altimir, Carolina; Ramirez, Ivonne; De La Parra, Guillermo; Dagnino, Paula; Echavarri, Orietta; Vilches, Oriana; Ben Dov, Perla
    Drawing on the speech acts theory, a linguistic pattern was identified that could be expected to be associated to therapeutic change, characterized by being uttered in the first person singular and present indicative, and by being self-referential in its propositional content. The frequency of the pattern was examined among verbalizations defined as change moments in three therapies with different theoretical orientation. Results show that the majority of change moments have the specified pattern, and that this pattern is significantly more frequent in change moments than in random non-change-related verbalizations, and so, it does not pertain to therapeutic conversation in general. Implications are discussed concerning the possibility of using the linguistic pattern as an additional and complementary criterion in the identification of moments of change in the therapeutic process.
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    Risk Factors for Adult Depression: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Personality Functioning
    (2020) Dagnino, Paula; Jose Ugarte, Maria; Morales, Felipe; Gonzalez, Sofia; Saralegui, Daniela; Ehrenthal, Johannes C.
    Background: Depressive disorder is one of the main health problems worldwide. Many risk factors have been associated with this pathology. However, while the association between risks factors and adult depression is well established, the mechanisms behind its impact remains poorly understood. A possible, yet untested explanation is the mediating impact of levels of personality functioning, i.e., impairments with regard to self and interpersonal.
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    The evolution of therapeutic change studied through generic change indicators
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2007) Krause, Mariane; De la Parra, Guillermo; Aristegui, Roberto; Dagnino, Paula; Tomicic, Alemka; Valdes, Nelson; Echavarri, Orietta; Strasser, Katherine; Reyes, Lucia; Altimir, Carolina; Ramirez, Ivonne; Vilches, Oriana; Ben Dov, Perla
    Ongoing change and therapeutic outcome were studied in five psychotherapeutic processes: three brief psychodynamic therapies, one social constructionist family therapy, and one group therapy of a comprehensive nature for drug abuse patients. Using qualitative methodology, in-session and extrasession change moments were identified and classified in a hierarchy of generic change indicators. Additionally, all patients were administered Lambert's Outcome Questionnaire. Results show that (a) extrasession change moments are more frequent toward the end of therapy, (b) therapy types differ in the frequency of some change indicators but not others, and (c) change indicators observed at the beginning of therapy are of lower level than those occurring at the end.
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    THE PROGRESSION OF CHANGE: HOW IT IS AND TOWARDS WHERE IS IT HEADED
    (FUNDACION AIGLE, 2014) Dagnino, Paula; de la Parra, Guillermo; Jaramillo, Andrea; Crempien, Carla; Padilla, Oslando; Gomez Barris, Elyna; Luzio, Paola; Reyes, Lucia; Said, Mariely; Escobar, Rocio; Martinez, Daniela; Rodriguez, Sandra