MEMBERS - Ps Carolina Altimir Colao, Ph.D(c)

Ph. D. Candidate, Psychotherapy Research International Doctoral Program, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Chile and Heidelberg Universität.

Academic and professional career

1999 Clinical Psychologist, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2003 Accredited as Family and Couple Therapist, Instituto Chileno de Terapia Familiar in cooperation with the Ackerman Institute for New York
2005 Accreditation as Clinical Psychologist by the Comisión Nacional de Acreditación de Psicólogos Clínicos de Chile
2008 Masters degree in Clinical Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
2007 - 2010 Ph. D. Candidate, Research International Doctoral Program, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Chile and Heidelberg Universität.

Teaching Activities

Lecturer and consulting on Qualitative Research Methods for graduate studies and lecturer on Communication Psychology, Psychopathology, and Systemic Theory for undergraduate studies.

Clinical activities

2004 - 2005 Clinical services at Mental Health Service of Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago
Interaction and mutual regulation in psychotherapy.
2000 - 2004 Director and therapist of Drug Abuse Rehabilitation Program at COSAM [Community Mental Health Center], Conchalí, Santiago, Chile.
1999 to date Permanent private clinical practice with individual adults and couples.

Research Topics

Change micro-processes in psychotherapy:
Mutual implicit and explicit affective regulation between patient and therapist, and its manifestation through verbal and non verbal behavior within moments of rupture and resolutions of the therapeutic Alliance.
Changeepisodes and content of therapeutic change from patients', therapists' and observers' perspectives.
Measurement of the Therapeutic Alliance in change and stuck session episodes, from different perspectives and its evolution throughout the therapeutic process.

Research Activities

2008-2011 Participation as Doctoral student in FONDECYT funded project 1080136: "Therapeutic Interaction, expression of emotions and therapeutic alliance: Study of the essential ingredients for change in psychotherapy" Santiago, Chile.

2006-2007 Participation as Master student in FONDECYT funded project 1060768: "Facilitating change in psychotherapy: effective and ineffective communicative interactions in different psychotherapeutic modalities". Santiago, Chile.

2004-2004 Participation as Master student in FONDECYT funded project 1030482: "Towards an effective practice in psychotherapy: Study of relevant episodes in different types of psychotherapy and their effects on therapeutic outcome" Santiago, Chile.



Selected Publications

Journal articles

Altimir, C., Krause, M., de la Parra, G., Dagnino, P., Tomicic, A., Valdés, N., Echávarri, O., Vilches, O., Reyes, L., Ramírez, I., & Arístegui, R. (Accepted for publication). Clients', therapists' and observers' perspectives on moments and contents of therapeutic change.Psychotherapy Research.

Valdés, N., Dagnino, P., Krause, M., Pérez, J., Altimir, C., Tomicic, A., Ramírez, I., & de la Parra, G. (Accepted for publication). Analysis of Verbalized Emotions in the Psychotherapeutic Dialogue during Change Episodes. Psychotherapy Research.

Tomicic, A., Martínez, C., Altimir, C., Bauer, S., y Reinoso, A. (2009). Coordinación Vocal Como una Dimensión de la Regulación Mutua en Psicoterapia [Vocal Coordination as a dimension of the mutual regulation in psychotherapy]. Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica, 18 (1), 31- 41.

Echávarri, O., González, A., Krause, M., Tomicic, A., Pérez, C., Dagnino, P., De la Parra, G., Valdéz, N., Altimir, C., Vilches, O., Strasser, K., Ramírez, I., Reyes, L. (2009). Cuatro terapias psicodinámicas breves, exitosas, estudiadas a través de los Indicadores de Genéricos de Cambio [Four successful and brief psychodynamic therapies studied through the Generic Change Indicators]. Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica, 18 (1), 5-19.

Reyes, L., Arístegui, R., Krause, M., Strasser, K., de la Parra, G., Tomicic, A., Dagnino, P., Vilches, O., Valdés, N., Echávarri, O., Altimir, C., Ramírez, I., & Ben-Dov, P. (2008). Language and therapeutic change: A speech acts analysis, Psychotherapy Research, 18, 355-362.

Krause, M., de la Parra, G., Arístegui, R., Dagnino, P., Tomicic, A., Valdés, N., Echávarri, O., Vilches, O., Ben-Dov, P., Strasser, K., Reyes, L., Altimir, C., Ramírez, I. (2007). The evolution of therapeutic change studied through generic change indicators. Psychotherapy Research, 17, 6, 673 - 689.

Krause, M., De la Parra, G., Arístegui, R., Tomicic, A., Dagnino, P., Echávarri, O., Valdés, N. Vilches, O., Ben-Dov, P., Altimir, C. (2006). Indicadores de cambio genéricos en la investigación psicoterapéutica [Generic change indicators in the psychotherapeutic research]. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 38, 299-325.

Membership

2005 - Chilean Society of Clinical Psychology
2005 - Colegio de Psicólogos de Chile
2004 - Society for Psychotherapy Research


Contact

Psychology Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Vicuña Mackenna 4860. Santiago, Chile
Phone: (56-2) 354 7294
E-mail: caltimir@uc.cl