Transcripts of the interviews

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 adolescents and young adults undergoing therapy, recounting positive and constructive events during their treatment. The coding process of the interviews followed Braun and Clarke (2006), described in detail elsewhere (Aschieri et al., 2021; Aschieri et al., 2024), moving from the development of a first set of possible coding categories to a structured thematic map through recursive reading of the interviews and revision of the general map of the categories that were identified. The final coding included two levels of analysis: main themes and themes. In line with Hennink and Kaiser (2022) and Aschieri and colleagues (2021), in this study we reported the frequency of subjects mentioning each theme. The results section also includes themes that are mentioned only one time. The uploaded file contains the verbatim of all the interviews.