Abstract

CARVALHO, Cibele; GODINHO, Lucia Rech  and  RAMIRES, Vera Regina Röhnelt. Child psychotherapeutic process: analysis based on the Child Psychotherapy Q-Set. Temas psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.24, n.3, pp. 1153-1167. ISSN 1413-389X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.9788/TP2016.3-19.

This study has focused on the analysis of psychotherapeutic process in the first year of a child, based on the Child Psychotherapy Q-Set (CPQ). The research guided by the longitudinal descriptive approach was made, adopting the Systematic Case Study procedure. Participants were a 7-year-old boy and his therapist. The CPQ was administered in two sessions in beginning the of treatment, two sessions after three months, two sessions after six months, two sessions after nine months and in two sessions after a year, to identify the characteristics of the therapeutic process, over the time. The findings revealed the characteristics of psychotherapy, as it has changed over time and how these changes may be indicative of outcome in therapy. The therapist attitudes involved, initially, an interpretive work and subsequently more reflective and support. The child initially was resistant and with few internal resources, but during treatment, showed greater openness to the therapeutic work, addressing significant content in relation to their problems. The interaction characteristics also became more prominent over time.

Keywords : Psychotherapy; children; process research.

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