LIMA, Maria Clara Silva    BRANCO, Paulo Coelho Castelo. Person-Centered Therapy and the Reorganizing Self-Image and Self-Esteem Process: Action Research. Estud. pesqui. psicol. []. 2023, 23, 2, pp.766-785.   03--2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2023.77711.

This article aimed to understand the therapeutic process provided by a short-term interventional practice centered on people with body self-esteem and self-image problems. Following a qualitative methodological design, the research and therapeutic interventions took place under the influence of the action research design. The following stages were used: planning the therapeutic process in light of the necessary and sufficient conditions for personality change and the therapeutic process phases; development of aid practice; action monitoring based on supervision, service review and semi-structured interviews with the participants; empirical phenomenological analysis of the affective impacts of therapy from the perspective of the clients assisted; understanding of this from the Rogerian framework. The following thematic axes related to the therapeutic process were elaborated and discussed: factors that led to the search for psychological help and constituted the therapeutic atmosphere; negative meaning of bodily experience; real meaning of the self-esteem experience in relation to the body; changes in attitudes towards self-perception and self-care. It was concluded that person-centered therapy produces significant affective impacts that helped these clients to deal with their body image and self-esteem experiences.

: Carl Rogers; body image; action research; personality; client centered therapy..

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