title: "For Me It Was a Key Moment of Therapy": Corrective Experience From the Client's Perspective.
abstract: Despite recent attempts to develop a consensus definition, questions still remain as to what constitutes corrective experiences (CEs) in psychotherapy and how clients perceive them. This qualitative study assessed clients' first person accounts of CEs associated with their own treatment-related changes. Participants were 8 clients in private psychotherapy in Buenos Aires. Treatment, by therapists from diverse theoretical backgrounds, varied from 4 to 24 months. The Patients' Perceptions of Corrective Experiences in Individual Therapy interview protocol was used to assess clients' perceptions of CEs at posttreatment. All interviews were audiorecorded and transcribed and submitted to a 2-stage thematic analysis to assess CEs and the contextual factors that contributed to them. Of the 8 participants, 5 narrated stories about CEs that changed the way they thought about themselves and their behavior. Additionally, clients highlighted disconfirmation of therapist role expectations and surprise regarding therapists' actions and behaviors as mechanisms of these corrective moments.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Buenos Aires.|Universidad de Belgrano.|3Argentinean National Scientific and Technical Research Council CONICET.
authors.forename: Andrés
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roussos
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Belgrano.
authors.forename: Malena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Braun
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Belgrano.|3Argentinean National Scientific and Technical Research Council CONICET.
authors.forename: Julieta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Olivera
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D063868:Patient Outcome Assessment; D063545:Personal Narratives as Topic; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D036301:Qualitative Research; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Corrective experiences; narrative accounts; patient perceptions; thematic analyses