title: Innovative moments and change pathways: a good outcome case of narrative therapy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our aim was to explore the development of innovative moments (i-moments) in therapeutic conversation and to study how they match our heuristic model that accounts for the development of change, drawn from previous empirical research.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this therapeutic process research, we analysed a good outcome case of narrative therapy with a woman victim of intimate violence.
  
  
  METHODS
  This case, composed of 12 sessions, was analysed with the Innovative Moments Coding System: Version 1. This coding system allowed the identification of five different types of innovations (i-moments) that appeared during the therapeutic process: action, reflection, protest, re-conceptualization, and performing change. For each session, an index of temporal salience was computed, as the percentage of the time in the session that client and therapist spent talking about each i-moment. Our analysis procedures provided a quantitative and also a complementary qualitative approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data showed that the types of i-moments emerged differently throughout the process. Early sessions were characterized mainly by action and reflection (low temporal salience), middle sessions were found to have mainly protest i-moments (low or middle temporal salience), and final sessions were characterized by the combination of high salient re-conceptualization and performing change i-moments.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings suggested that narrative change seems to develop in a cyclical way, in which different types of i-moments contribute to the development of a new self-narrative in different phases.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Superior da Maia (ISMAI), Maia, Portugal.
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gonçalves
authors.forename: Marlene
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matos
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salvatore
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008960:Models, Psychological; D033262:Narration; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011340:Problem Solving; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*