Abstracts and overall summaries will be converted into digital form to create a book of abstracts to be available at the meeting and on the SPR website. This therapeutic approach focuses on clients' present experiences in order to facilitate emotional change and experiential processing, combining aspects of client-centered and gestalt approaches. The Narrative Process Coding System was employed to identify three types of processes used in the construction of the therapeutic narratives. External narrative sequences describe actions and events. These units often include client story-telling and are most like literary narratives.
Internal sequences give a subjective account of clients' experiences.
Reflexive sequences are analytical evaluations of actions or events, in which clients reflect upon the meanings of their behavior or plan future courses of action. The Client Experiencing Scale was used to provide a second perspective on the evolution of client narrative. This scale measures the degree to which clients focus on their feelings and internal experiential state. The patterns of narrative sequences were examined in interaction with clients' experiential levels to determine how clients' construction of narratives differed in good and poor outcome therapies. It is not too late to join Clara Hill and her colleagues at the first SPR Mid-Atlantic Chapter meeting to be held at the University of Maryland, Friday, November 5th.