Digital images as meaning bridges: Case study of assimilation using avatar software in counselling with a 14‐year‐old boy

Rijn, Biljana van; Chryssafidou, Evi; Falconer, Caroline J.; Stiles, William B.

doi:10.1002/capr.12230

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“…3: Preparation and looking forward to changing in the client. These factors are emphasized in(Brinegar et al, 2006;Hermans & Dimaggio, 2004;Leiman, 2012;Ribeiro et al, 2013;van Rijn et al, 2019).…”

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Dialogical Origin of Meaning Making and Co-construction of Voices in Psychotherapy

Kivi

Ghavibazou

2023

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Intersubjectivity has priority over subjectivity because meaning is discussed and constructed in a two-way process that happens in a conversation. According to this, the research aims to show the terms of change for meaning production in psychotherapy with clients. Two cases (a child and an adult) were selected with apparent symptoms of anxiety and fear with the case study method and available sampling. They were treated by the technical integrative method. Conversations were coded by process-focused conversation analysis. Analyzing results by process-focused conversation analysis showed that in both cases, to happen changes in psychotherapy, besides terms of conversation, a particular type of psychotherapy response is essential (Khayyami's cycle), and client change is not explained by the merely particular response of the therapist; but, the therapist can, by the method used in the research, acquire the meaning hidden behind client's verbal response and symptoms on the dialogue process and show Lacani's transcendental signified and signified chain.

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Dialogical Origin of Meaning Making and Co-construction of Voices in Psychotherapy

Kivi

Ghavibazou

2023

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“…Most assimilation model research has focused on adults and used clients' verbal expressions to track the evolving relation to the problematic experience. However, theoretically, expressions by a problematic voice may include any expressive signs (e.g., digital imagery; Van Rijn et al, 2019), and accordingly, we supposed that a child's play can be seen as expressions by voices, including warded-off voices expressing themselves in ways not recognized by the dominant community. In the Table 1.…”

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Progress through the Early Stages of Assimilation in Play Therapy with a Traumatized Six-Year-Old Girl

Aro¹,

Kuusinen

Stiles³

et al. 2021

Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy

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We applied the assimilation of problematic experiences sequence (APES) to a six-year-old girl's processing of traumatic experiences involving violence and death in play therapy. We analyzed the post-session notes from the first 34 sessions of a much longer treatment, during which the girl repeatedly enacted a drama we called the cottage play, involving characters assumed by the child and characters assigned to the therapist. We distinguished four phases based on changes in play themes. In phase 1, the girl expressed her need for safety in response to an overwhelming internal threat (APES stage 0, warded off/dissociated). In phase 2, she worked to escape and avoid the threat, referenced in the play as monsters and bad memories (APES 1, unwanted thoughts/avoidance). Phase 3 was a brief period of consolidation. In phase 4, she actively faced the trauma, referenced as murderers, soldiers, and death (APES 2, awareness/emergence). Our observations underlined the child-therapist collaboration and dyadic processing. The expressions of the problematic experiences suggested increasing but limited assimilation (stages 0 to 2 out of eight stages). The assimilation model usefully described symbolic processing in play therapy, and the results pointed to tentative elaborations in APES stage descriptions.In this qualitative theory-building case study, we analyzed a child's symbolic play in non-directive, child-centered play therapy. We investigated how processing of severe traumatic experiences may be observed in the evolving play themes. To guide our observations and to conceptualize this process we used the assimilation model (Stiles, 2002(Stiles, , 2011. The assimilation modelThe assimilation model is a theory of psychological change (Stiles, 2002(Stiles, , 2011Stiles et al., 1990) not tied to a particular treatment approach. The model proposes that a schema (i.e., a way of thinking and acting) gradually changes during the therapeutic process until emotionally problematic experiences can be assimilated and become part of the schema. According to the model, psychological improvement in therapy is explained as increases in the level of assimilation of initially warded-off, avoided, or CONTACT Tuija Aro

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“…Penelitian yang telah ada yaitu menerapkan alat konseling berbasis komputer untuk membantu penanganan HIV/AIDS (Kurth et al, 2019). Inovasi juga telah dilakukan dalam penanganan klien pada terapi dan pelatihan (van Rijn, Chryssafidou, Falconer, & Stiles, 2019).…”

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Ifdil perceptual light technique (IPLT) an alternative brief approach for the reduction of trauma, phobia and psychological problems

Ifdil

Zola²,

Fadli³

2019

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Psychological problems continue to develop with the incessant occurrence of revolutionary fluctuations. However, the problem is more complex, with a continuous increase in growth rate not balanced with the psychological approaches and counseling related to recovery. In addition, several previous approaches require a relatively longer alleviation time. Therefore, Ifdil Perceptual Light Technique (IPLT) comes with a combination of technology, programming languages, and several previous approaches, which aim to reduce trauma, phobias and other psychological disorders in less than ten minutes. IPLT works by utilizing and combining light technology with programming languages to modify, change sensory and perceptual stimuli. It has IPLTC procedures namely Insight (I) Processing of Building Rapport (P), Lighting Techniques (L) Tools and Techniques (T), Closing and Follow Up (C). Based on trials, IPLT is very effective in reducing trauma, phobias and other psychological disorders. However, it requires broader development and testing with diverse samples for proper optimization of approaches.

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Digital images as meaning bridges: Case study of assimilation using avatar software in counselling with a 14‐year‐old boy

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Dialogical Origin of Meaning Making and Co-construction of Voices in Psychotherapy

Dialogical Origin of Meaning Making and Co-construction of Voices in Psychotherapy

Progress through the Early Stages of Assimilation in Play Therapy with a Traumatized Six-Year-Old Girl

Ifdil perceptual light technique (IPLT) an alternative brief approach for the reduction of trauma, phobia and psychological problems

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