ArticleFrontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry2026
Toward the automation of family semantic grids: a pilot exploration of text mining for evidence-informed systemic-relational psychotherapy.
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Introduction: Retracing the theme of what can legitimately be considered "evidence" in psychotherapy, the present work shows the application of an Participants: The present study examines the clinical case of an adolescent girl with untreated past non-suicidal self-injury ( Methods: Overall semantic activity was compared across events with Wilcoxon rank-sum tests. In categorical comparisons Results: Results indicated that the therapist introduced a significantly lower proportion of new meanings across all comparisons during the consultation phase. LME models showed significant intensity shifts toward positive-valued meanings, supported by Discussion: Overall, the study supports the feasibility of a semi-automated process for coding and for subsequent analyses of family semantic polarities. In fact, performed analyses demonstrate how therapist positioning and meaning management through re-expression and semantic shifts significantly influenced family members' change in positioning, an effect especially evident for the identified patient. In conclusion, rule-based text mining can yield process indicators that remain clinically legible. Read as "semantography," results provide a compact, data-grounded map of coupling and early change while staying parsimonious on case disclosure. Limits and future directions of the present pilot study are discussed.
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