Meeting the demand for evidence-based practice
Cooper, Mick (2011) Meeting the demand for evidence-based practice. Therapy Today, 22 (4). pp. 10-16. ISSN 1748-7846
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Abstract
Like many in the counselling and psychotherapy field, when it comes to research, my preference has always been for language-based, ‘qualitative’ inquiry. A few years ago, for instance, I conducted a qualitative interview study asking therapists about their experiences of in-depth encounters with clients.1 As I sat listening to them describing their feelings of ‘aliveness’ and ‘immersion’ at these moments, I experienced a feeling of deep connection in the interview itself. This, it seemed to me, was what counselling and psychotherapy research could really be about: a deep, relationship-based exploration that, in its methods and values, paralleled our own therapeutic work with clients.
Author(s): | Cooper, Mick | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 32220 |
Keywords: | counselling, psychotherapy , therapeutic work , Psychology |
Subjects: | Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Psychological Science and Health > Counselling |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 21 Jul 2011 08:33 |
Last modified: | 05 Dec 2019 04:04 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/32220 |
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