Gonçalves, Alexandra F.
Ribeiro, Eugénia
Sampaio, Adriana
Couto-Pereira, Natividade S.
Moreira, Pedro
Coutinho, Joana F.
Article History
Received: 1 November 2024
Accepted: 30 May 2025
First Online: 10 October 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee from the Research Centre in Psychology of the University of Minho (CA_CIPsi-072012). (November 16, 2012). Moreover, all methods were carried out following guidelines for research in psychology, enshrined in the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association (WMA) (2008). Informed consent was obtained after explaining the procedure to the participants in a prior meeting at the beginning of the treatment. Both therapists and clients accepted all the procedures involved in the data collection, were permitted to use their data, and signed the informed consent in writing form. The therapeutic process was offered free of charge, and it was assured that, if the client wanted to withdraw his participation from the research project, the therapy process would continue, if necessary.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.