The chapter written by Carolina Altimir addresses the importance of qualitative research to understand the processes of change that occur during psychotherapy in the Latin American context.
The academic from the School of Psychology of the Universidad de los Andes, Carolina Altimir, participated as author in the book Qualitative Research in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy in Latin America: Creativity for Studying Complex Objects in Context, a publication that brings together the work of outstanding researchers from different Latin American countries.
"The text is focused on the study of psychotherapy and mental health from a qualitative perspective but with a regional stamp, as it shows original works and the creative use of these methods to understand the complex phenomenon that is psychotherapy, change, therapeutic interaction and the experience of illness, among others," says the academic of the School of Psychology Uandes.
In the chapter "Qualitative Research on Psychotherapeutic Change in Latin America: In Search of Capturing Complexity"written by Carolina Altimir, an academic from the School of Psychology at UANDES, addresses the importance of qualitative research to understand the processes of change that occur during psychotherapy in the Latin American context.
The presentation of the book took place at the Universidad Diego Portales, where the master class "Descriptive-interpretative qualitative psychotherapy research" was held, by the outstanding researcher Ladislav Timulak, an international reference in qualitative research in psychotherapy.