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Vol. 10 (2022)
Brief strategic psychotherapy and narrative medicine: an integrated model
Corrective emotional experiences in the hospital setting in two clinical cases of hypochondriacal disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder
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Received: 11 March 2022
Accepted: 9 May 2022
Accepted: 9 May 2022
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OBJECTIVES
Comparative analysis of the aspects of interconnection and differentiation/protocol integration with narrative medicine.
Empirical evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of strategic narrative techniques on individual cases in terms of the development of corrective emotional experiences aimed at reducing/remitting the symptomatic picture and raising the level of psychophysical and socio-relational well-being of the patients treated.
METHODOLOGY
Action research, operational diagnosis, narrative techniques of the reference strategic intervention protocols.
RESULTS
On the basis of the applied protocols, a complete remission of symptoms was observed in the psychopathological areas treated, with an increase in coping functions and adaptive modalities in the treated cases of hypochondriacal disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, attested from follow-up to 6, 12 and 24 months after the end of the treatment.
CONCLUSIONS
In the two cases studied, the use of strategic narrative techniques, with their peculiar characterizations, appears to be effective as a tool for inducing corrective emotional experiences necessary for change and improvement in the psychopathological structure of patients and their possible application, in the context of principals of health psychology, in integration-continuity with narrative medicine.
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Brief strategic psychotherapy and narrative medicine: an integrated model : Corrective emotional experiences in the hospital setting in two clinical cases of hypochondriacal disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. (2022). Working Paper of Public Health, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/wpph.2022.9497
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