Aim and Objectives
- to identify commonly-held beliefs regarding being a therapist and researcher
- to explore the personal and social experiences of being a published therapist-researcher.
The aim being to support more practising counsellors, psychotherapists and Counselling Psychologists to publish their research.
Design or methodology structure: 聽
The research methodology is a qualitatively driven mixed-methods study in two phases.
Phase 1
An online mixed-methods survey using demography and Likert questions and a Story Completion task. The story stem is 鈥淵ou have just found out that a therapy colleague of yours, Sam, has had an article published following undertaking research within their practice.鈥�
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Phase 2
Involves using free-association narrative interviews exploring:
- the personal and social
- conscious and unconscious
- narrative dynamics in action.
This exploration will be with practising counsellors, psychotherapists and Counselling Psychologists who have successfully published their research.
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