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Despite the importance of narrative, emotional and meaning-making processes in psychotherapy, there has been no review
of studies using the main instruments developed to address these processes. The objective is to review the studies about
client narrative and narrative-emotional processes in psychotherapy that used the Narrative Process Coding System or the
Narrative-Emotion Process Coding System (1.0 and 2.0). To identify the studies, we searched The Book Collection, PsycINFO,
PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PEP Archive, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Academic Search
Complete and the Web of Knowledge databases. We found 27 empirical studies using one of the three coding systems. The
studies applied the Narrative Process Coding System and the Narrative-Emotion Process Coding System to different therapeutic
modalities and patients with various clinical disorders. In some studies, early, middle and late phases of therapy were
compared, while other studies conducted intensive case analyses of Narrative Process Coding System and Narrative-Emotion
Process Coding System patterns comparing recovered vs unchanged clients. The review supports the importance to look for
the contribution of narrative, emotion, meaning-making patterns or narrative-emotion markers, to treatment outcomes and
encourages the application of these instruments in process-outcome research in psychotherapy.
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Narrative process coding system Narrative-emotion process coding system Review Psychotherapy
Citation
Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy Doi: 10.1007/s10879-020-09472-6
Publisher
Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press Inc.