Statistics for Spatial Data.

Quasi-experimentation - design and analysis issues for field settings - cook,td, campbell,dt

Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change

Narrative therapy: The social construction of preferred realities.

Analysis of Longitudinal Data (2nd ed.) (Book)

In many longitudinal studies, the outcomes recorded on each subject include both a sequence of repeated measurements at pre-specified times and the time at which an event of particular interest occurs: for example, death, recurrence of symptoms or drop out from the study. The event time for each subject may be recorded exactly, interval censored or right censored. The term joint modelling refers to the statistical analysis of the resulting data while taking account of any association between the repeated measurement and time-to-event outcomes. In this paper, we first discuss different approaches to joint modelling and argue that the analysis strategy should depend on the scientific focus of the study. We then describe in detail a particularly simple, fully parametric approach. Finally, we use this approach to re-analyse data from a clinical trial of drug therapies for schizophrenic patients, in which the event time is an interval-censored or right-censored time to withdrawal from the study due to adverse side effects.

Joint modelling of repeated measurements and time-to-event outcomes: the fourth Armitage lecture.

The aim of this study was to advance understanding of how clients construct their own process of change in effective therapy sessions. Toward this end, the authors applied a narrative methodological tool for the study of the change process in emotion-focused therapy (EFT), replicating a previous study done with narrative therapy (NT). The Innovative Moments Coding System (IMCS) was applied to three good-outcome and three poor-outcome cases in EFT for depression to track the innovative moments (IMs), or exceptions to the problematic self-narrative, in the therapeutic conversation. IMCS allows tracking of five types of IMs events: action, reflection, protest, reconceptualization, and performing change. The analysis revealed significant differences between the good-outcome and poor-outcome groups regarding reconceptualization and performing change IMs, replicating the findings from a previous study. Reconceptualization and performing change IMs seem to be vital in the change process.

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Narrative change in emotion-focused therapy: how is change constructed through the lens of the innovative moments coding system?

The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - PTDC⁄CLI⁄67180⁄2006, PTDC⁄AAC-AMB⁄117068⁄2010, PEst-C⁄BIA⁄UI4050⁄2011, SFRH⁄BD⁄42215⁄2007

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Higher temperature reduces the effects of litter quality on decomposition by aquatic fungi

The joineR package implements methods for analysing data from longitudinal studies in which the response
from each subject consists of a time-sequence of repeated measurements and a possibly censored time-toevent
outcome. The modelling framework for the repeated measurements is the linear model with random
effects and/or correlated error structure. The model for the time-to-event outcome is a Cox proportional
hazards model with log-Gaussian frailty. Stochastic dependence is captured by allowing the Gaussian
random effects of the linear model to be correlated with the frailty term of the Cox proportional hazards
model.

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joineR: Joint modelling of repeated measurements and time-to-event data

Previous studies have used the Innovative Moments Coding System (IMCS) to describe the process of change in Narrative Therapy (NT) and in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). This study aims to extend this research program to a sample of Client-Centered Therapy (CCT). The IMCS was applied to six cases of CCT for depression to track the Innovative Moments (IMs) which are exceptions to the problematic self-narrative in therapeutic conversation. Results suggest that IMCS can be applied to CCT, allowing the tracking of IMs' emergence. The analysis based on a generalized linear model revealed that the overall amount of IMs is significantly associated with symptom improvement, which is congruent with former studies done with the IMCS.

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Inês Sousa

Papers

Joint modelling of repeated measurements and time-to-event outcomes: the fourth Armitage lecture.

Narrative change in emotion-focused therapy: how is change constructed through the lens of the innovative moments coding system?

Higher temperature reduces the effects of litter quality on decomposition by aquatic fungi

joineR: Joint modelling of repeated measurements and time-to-event data

Innovative moments and change in client-centered therapy