Innovative moments and change in client-centered therapy

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.