Practitioner Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy : the Power of Examples / edited by Liz Bondi and Judith Fewell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bondi, L. (Liz), editor.

Fewell, Judith, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counseling--Research--Case studies.

Counseling.

Psychotherapy--Research--Case studies.

Psychotherapy.

Counseling--Research.

Psychotherapy--Research.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

In this thought-provoking text, Liz Bondi and Judith Fewell invite practitioners to move away from an approach to research that depends upon distance and objectification, and towards a method centred on practical wisdom developed through intense exploration of the lived experience of therapeutic relationships. Following a close examination of the flaws of dominant approaches to research in the field, the book provides a richly detailed exploration of a diverse range of subjective experiences, from both practitioners and clients. These include a voluntary counsellor's account of working with a bereaved inmate in a Scottish prison, a case study about how music and poetry enabled a man diagnosed with schizophrenia living in a psychiatric facility to communicate and develop a positive therapeutic relationship, and an exploration of the gender dynamics experienced by a female trainee counsellor working with a depressed male client.

Contents:

Reclaiming the wisdom of practice in counselling and psychotherapy research

Why does research so often alienate practitioners and what can be done about it? Liz Bondi and Judith Fewell

The power of examples Liz Bondi and Judith Fewell

Rethinking supervision and ethics in experience-near research Siobhan Canavan and Seamus Prior

Coming into therapeutic practice

A trainee counsellor's account of learning to trust in the process Linda Gardner

Losing touch: an exploration of the place of touch in therapeutic relationships Anna St. Clair

Why I became a counselor: reflections on the counter-transference Mags Turner

Client voices

Working with early trauma in therapy: emerging from the shadow of polio Connie Johnson

Regarding 'The Teashouse of the August Moon': therapeutic work with a man with schizophrenia within a hospital content April Parkins

A secret sorrow: making a difference to bereavement in prison Janette Masterton

'Reading the wound': using stories to open up the nature of trauma Linda Talbert

Embodying theory

An investigation of narratives of anxiety Chris Scott

Hauntings: on discovering the lived experience of counter-transference Patrick Fegan

Working with Mark: gender in the counselling room Lynne Rollo

Tolerating the 'Chaos Monsters': making sense with Bion Diana Sim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1137390298

9781137390295

OCLC:

936533061