Research

Research interests

Psychotherapy with children that have lived through sexual abuse; Research ethics in sensitive topics; Research ethics with child maltreatment and child sexual abuse; innovative and creative research methodologies; young children; narrative, constructivism.

Current Research

Working title (PhD Thesis)

Exploring the puzzle? Narrative understandings of the experience of psychotherapy following sexual abuse for young children in Chile"

Supervisors

Prof. Janet Boddy. Professor of Child, Youth and Family Studies, School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex.

Prof. Michelle Lefevre. Professor of Social Work and Director of CIRCY (Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth), University of Sussex.

Journal articles

Capella, C., Rodriguez, L., Lama, X. & Beiza, G (2018). Passing on the experience of psychotherapy and healing: Letters of adolescents who have been victims of sexual abuse to another. Narrative Inquiry. 28(1), 119-138.

Capella, C., & Rodriguez, L. (2018). Buenas prácticas que favorecen el cambio psicoterapéutico en casos de agresiones sexuales: Integrando la perspectiva de niños/as y adolescentes que han sido víctimas, sus padres y psicoterapeutas [Good practices that favors the psychotherapeutic change in cases of sexual abuse: Complementing the perspectives of children and young people victims of sexual abuse, their parents and psychotherapists]. Revista Señales, 18, 7-22.

Capella, C., Gutierrez, C., Rodriguez, L., & Gomez, C. (2018). Change during psychotherapy: the perspective of children and adolescents who have been sexually abused. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome. 21(1). DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.288

Dussert, D., Capella, C., Lama, X., Gutiérrez, C., Águila, D., Rodriguez, L & Beiza, G. (2017). Narrativas de padres de niños, niñas y adolescentes que han finalizado psicoterapia por agresiones sexuales: Un proceso de superación conjunta [Narratives of parents of children and adolescents who have completed psychotherapy for sexual aggression: A joint process of healing]. PSYKHE, 26(1), 1-14. DOI:10.7764/psykhe.26.1.916

Capella, C., Lama, X., Rodriguez, L., Águila, D., Beiza, G., Dussert, D., & Gutiérrez, C. (2016). Winning a race: Narratives of healing and psychotherapy in children and adolescents who have been sexually abused. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. DOI: 10.1080/10538712.2015.1088915

Águila, D., Lama, X., Capella, C., Rodríguez, L., Dussert, D., Gutiérrez, C., & Beiza, G. (2016). Narratives from therapists regarding the process of psychotherapeutic change in children and adolescents who have been victims of sexual abuse. Studies in Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2016.1204780

Lama, X., Gutiérrez, C., Capella, C., Dussert, D., Rodríguez, L., Beiza, G. & Águila, D. (2015). Superación de agresiones sexuales infanto-juveniles y el sistema judicial: Una visión desde los participantes [Healing from child and youth sexual assault and the justice system: A view from the participants]. Revista de Psicología, 24(1), 1-19. DOI: 10.5354/0719-0581.2015.36914

Capella, C., Rodríguez, L., Águila, D., Dussert, D., Lama, X., Gutiérrez, C., & Beiza, G. (2015). Storied images of psychotherapeutic change: Approaching children ́s voices through drawings. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 18(2), 141-151. DOI: 10.7411/RP.2015.109

Beiza, G., Capella, C., Dussert, D., Rodríguez, L., Águila, D., Gutiérrez, C., & Lama, X. (2015). Institutionalized adolescents in therapy: Narratives toward psychotherapy and healing from sexual abuse experiences. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 18(2), 62-71. DOI: 10.7411/RP.2016.004

Conference papers

2018 - Rodriguez, L. & Miranda, J. “Innovative methodologies for research and clinical practice with children and young people victims of violence: Visual analysis”. XIV International Conference of Maltreated Childhood. Barcelona, Spain.

2017 - Rodriguez, L., Capella, C., Espeleta, M., & Lama, X. “Psychotherapeutic change in sexual abuse: complementing the perspectives of children and their non-offending parents”. XXXVI Inter American Congress of Psychology. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

2016 - Rodriguez, L., Capella, C., Lama, X., Aguila, D., Nuñez, L., Azocar, E., Dussert, D., Gomez, C., Espeleta, M., Vasquez, V., & Fuentes, S. "Change narratives during Psychotherapy: the drawings of children and adolescents that have been victims of sexual abuse". XII Latin American Congress from the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) and XIV Chilean Congress of Psychotherapy. Reñaca, Chile.