Eunice Barbosa

• Doctor of Psychology
• PhD Student at University of Coimbra & ISMAI University Institute of Maia

This study aimed to validate and explore the psychometric properties of the credibility/expectancy questionnaire (CEQ) for the Portuguese population in the context of routine practice. The sample includes 87 clients from a university psychotherapy clinic. All clients completed self-report measures to assess credibility and expectation (CEQ), as wel...

Objective: Recent studies on immersion (first-person perspective) and distancing (third-person perspective) in psychotherapy have shown the potential of both perspectives in the treatment of depression. High levels of change were associated with transitions between immersion and distancing, suggesting that a dynamic pattern between them may result...

A depressão é uma das doenças mentais com maior prevalência a nível mundial (Lim, Tam, Lu, Ho, Zhang, & Ho, 2018; World Health Organization [WHO], 2017). O seu elevado impacto nas esferas individual, social e económica (Kessler & Bromet, 2013; Richards, 2011) tem motivado o crescente investimento a nível financeiro, científico e político-social de...

Background: The lack of knowledge regarding psychometric characteristics of brief scales for assessing the severity of symptoms of depression for the Portuguese population limits the ability of health professionals to signal clinically relevant situations, as well as the implementation of alternative forms of mental health care. The Patient Health...

Objective: The potential benefit or harm of immersion (egocentric perspective) and distancing (observer perspective) on negative experiences are unclear and have not been empirically investigated in therapy. This is a first exploratory study aimed to analyze and compare the perspectives adopted on reflection (immersion and distancing) of negative...

This study aims to clarify the roles of immersion and distancing (that is, reflection on an experience from an egocentric point of view or as an observer, respectively) on therapeutic change analyzing i) the evolution of these two perspectives across the resolution of a clinical problem, and ii) the relationship between immersion/distancing with sy...

Previous laboratory studies have explored the importance of participants adopting an immersed or distanced perspective in the analysis of their experiences. These studies concluded that distancing allows analyzing emotions in a healthier way and immersion leads to higher vulnerability. However, in psychotherapy, the relationship between these persp...

Objective: Some studies have suggested that a decrease in immersion (egocentric perspective on personal experiences) and an increase in distancing (observer perspective on personal experiences) are associated with the resolution of clinical problems and positive outcome in psychotherapy for depression. To help clarify how this change in perspective...

The present study focuses on the analysis of novelty emergence in classic Gloria Films with Rogers, Perls, and Ellis to understand how the same client formulated her own problem and if and how change occurred in those three sessions. The Innovative Moments Coding System was applied to track innovative moments (IMs) and their themes. The session wit...

How do clients change is still a demanding question in psychotherapy research. Within the dialogical studies, there have been varied contributions on how the metaphor of the self as a multiplicity of voices can help our understanding of clients’ problems and changes. In this study, the case of “Lisa”, a successful case of emotion-­focused therapy,...