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PRACTITIONER RESEARCH IN COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
THE POWER OF EXAMPLES |
| By: |
Professor Liz Bondi, Judith Fewell |
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Paperback |
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£34.99 |
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£33.24 |
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£1.75 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1137390298 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781137390295 |
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| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2016 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2016 |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Description: |
This evocative and thought-provoking book calls for an overhaul of how counselling and psychotherapy research is framed and conducted. Packed full of first-hand examples from a wealth of different perspectives, it puts forward an approach to research centred on practical wisdom developed through intense exploration of the lived experience. |
| Synopsis: |
Developing knowledge in the field of counselling and psychotherapy has traditionally been seen to require a specific type of research: one typically undertaken by academics and published in journals, with the express purpose of raising the prestige of the field as a whole. But how are practitioners to apply findings based on generalisations to their unique therapeutic relationships with unique individuals?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.Written by a collection of authors with a wealth of experience in practice and academia, this insightful and evocative text will inspire anyone undertaking research in this field - be they students, educators or practitioners. |
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248 p. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave |
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Non-returnable |
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