Narrative change in psychotherapy: differences between good and bad outcome cases in cognitive, narrative, and prescriptive therapies

This study aimed to clarify the relationship between changes in the
patients’ narratives and therapeutic outcomes. Two patients were
selected from three psychotherapeutic models (cognitive, narrative,
and prescriptive therapies), one with good therapeutic outcome and
the other with bad therapeutic outcome. Sessions from the initial,
middle, and final phases for each patient were evaluated in terms of
narrative structural coherence, process complexity, and content
diversity. Differences between patients’ total narrative production
were found at the end of the therapeutic process. Good outcome
cases presented a higher statistically significant total narrative change
than poor outcome cases