Analysis of the role of motivating operations in the therapeutic verbal interaction

The concept of motivating operation (MO) helps to overcome both theoretical and practical problems of the traditional notion of motivation in the study of the therapeutic process. In this research, the role of three types of therapists’ verbalizations with an MO function was analyzed, in addition to...

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Autores: Estal Muñoz, Víctor, Andrés López, Natalia, Pereira Xavier, Gladis Lee, Gálvez-Delgado, Elena, Froxán Parga, María Xesús
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositório:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/712129
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/712129
https://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesps.528891
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:clinical change
motivating operation
motivation
process research
therapeutic verbal interaction
Psicología
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Resumo:The concept of motivating operation (MO) helps to overcome both theoretical and practical problems of the traditional notion of motivation in the study of the therapeutic process. In this research, the role of three types of therapists’ verbalizations with an MO function was analyzed, in addition to their association with clients’ verbal behavior. For this purpose, recordings of 40 clinical sessions belonging to 9 different cases were ob-served. The ACOVEO System was the observational category system used to identify the therapists’ verbal MOs coded as MO with clinical information, MO with consequences, and MO with pairings. The SISC-CVC was the one used to identify clients’ verbalizations coded as Agreement and Disagreement. Se-quential analyses were performed to test the relation between the three dif-ferent types of MOs with themselves, as well as with clients’ concurrence. Results showed that the different MOs were emitted in chunks and when MO with clinical information was uttered either with MO with consequences or MO with pairings there was a greater association with Agreement (r = 2.47; r = 1.86) rather than with Disagreement (r = -.53; r = -.36). These findings high-light the importance of the emission of MOs that associate directly events with an eliciting component with clients’ behavior, giving more efficacious strategies to the therapists