Browsing by Author "Cerda, Cecilia de la"

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    Mentalizing in psychotherapy: patients’ and therapists’ reflective functioning during the psychotherapeutic process
    (2019) Cerda, Cecilia de la; Tomicic, Alemka; Pérez, J. Carola; Martínez, Claudio; Morán, Javier
    There has been a growing interest in mentalization in clinical research given its relationship with normal and psychopathological functioning and its explanatory potential as a mechanism of psychotherapeutic change. This study uses the Reflective Functioning Scale (RFS) to identify and characterize mentalization manifestations in sychotherapeutic interaction. Method: the RFS was applied to a sample of relevant episodes — 44 sessions from five different psychotherapy processes carried out with adult patients who had different diagnoses. Results: we observed a higher probability of reflective functioning (RF) passages in relevant events than in neutral segments. There were no differences in the RF passages according to episode or actor type, but there were in RF Failures, which is more likely in patients and during rupture episodes. Discussion: although certain modifications are necessary, the RFS can be applied to clinical material, and it is a promising strategy for the study of mentalization within psychotherapy.
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    Reflective Functioning in initial Interviews of Psychotherapy: an Exploratory Study about the role of Mentalizing in the Therapeutic Interaction
    (2017) Martínez Guzmán, Claudio; Tomicic, Alemka; Cerda, Cecilia de la; Rivera, María José; Salas, Carolina
    Mentalizing allows to perceive and to interpret human behavior in terms of mental states. It has been operationalized as Reflective Functioning (RF) for evaluation, and is usually coded from an attachment interview. This study sought to determine types of mentalizing interventions that promote RF responses in the patient in a psychotherapy interview. Thirty interviews were analyzed with the RF scale to identify the therapist's actions associated with the RF in the responses of patients. It was observed that affective and relational questions facilitate a better level of RF in patients. Consideration of mentalization as a dynamic process is discussed and contextualized, and future research with this type of methodological approach is proposed.

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