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Showing 1 to 20 of 172 for “"The Therapeutic Relationship"”.
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Hope and the therapeutic relationship: An 'interactive dance'
Within psychotherapy research there is a general consensus on the important role that clients’ hope plays in successful therapeutic outcomes. However little is known about how practitioner psychologists understand and experience their own hope in their clinical practice. It is anticipated that …
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The therapeutic relationship and its links to emotional intelligence
The importance of emotional intelligence (EI) as a theoretical construct to understand human emotions has become quite prominent over the last two decades. However, the concept of EI has not been frequently applied to the therapeutic setting. This study investigated the role that EI plays in …
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Client Centered Play Therapy : An Investigation of the Therapeutic Relationship
Research questions. The development of the therapeutic relationship in a non-directive play therapy setting was investigated through the following questions: (a) How is the development of the therapeutic relationship between the counselor and the child in the play therapy setting enhanced? (b) How …
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Therapist's construction of trauma work and negotiating the therapeutic relationship
This study aims to critically explore the discourses therapists use to construct trauma. Five therapists (two counselling psychologists, one clinical psychologist, one gestalt therapist and one psychotherapist), who self-identified as working with trauma, were interviewed. The transcripts were …
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The power of the therapeutic relationship in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
As the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) model has developed in recent years, so has the role of the therapeutic relationship within that model. This portfolio aims to uncover aspects of the therapeutic relationship in CBT as it is practiced nowadays. The first section presents an overview in …
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Gender differences and depression in self-disclosure on the therapeutic relationship
The counseling relationship is a major factor in promoting change from the client in the therapeutic relationship. Additional factors contributing to or hindering this relationship including gender, depressive symptomology, and disclosure tendency, collectively require further attention to …
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Genuinely caring: compassion and the healing nature of the therapeutic relationship
… to date, research in this area has been largely theoretical, and empirical investigation has been limited. This qualitative study aimed to construct an understanding of the nature of compassion in nursing and what makes it possible, in order to address the paucity of research and lack of …
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Religious Fundamentalism, Empathy, and Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gays Within the Therapeutic Relationship
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between religious fundamentalism, empathy, and attitudes toward lesbians and gays in counselor trainees enrolled in CACREP accredited, master's level counselor education programs. A geographically stratified random sample was used to obtain …
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Therapists’ experiences of ‘internet exposure’ in the therapeutic relationship: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
The aim of this research was to investigate the effect on the therapist and the therapeutic relationship when clients obtained personal information about their therapist online and went on to disclose that information in a session. As social media has grown in popularity, many people have become …
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A Portfolio on the Therapeutic Relationship, Therapeutic Ruptures and Repairs, and Counselling Psychology
The role and impact of a positive therapeutic alliance on psychotherapy outcome has been vastly documented. However, ruptures in the therapeutic alliance are a common phenomenon posing marked challenges on the work of therapists. Although outcome research indicates that rupture-repair processes …
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Online counsellors' experiences of the therapeutic relationship with young people: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
There is good evidence that the use of online counselling is increasing and related to this has been an expansion of services and individuals offering online counselling services. However, there is a dearth of research which has investigated processes occurring during online therapy and very little …
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The Impact of Social Stigma on the Therapeutic Relationship for Latino Clinicians: The Elephant in the Room?
<p>Social stigma is consistently mentioned in the literature as one of the barriers</p><p>preventing Latinos from seeking, accessing and remaining in mental health care. This</p><p>study focuses specifically on social stigma as a barrier to remain in psychotherapy.</p><p>Social stigma is understood …
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Self-regulatory strategies for brain injury patients: how can the therapeutic relationship in cognitive rehabilitation therapy help?
Background and aim: The research aimed to describe how clinicians use the therapeutic relationship to facilitate the process of training patients use a self-regulatory strategy to aid an executive impairment due to an acquired brain injury (ABI). The research was motivated by the underdeveloped …
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A qualitative analysis of how therapists experience the therapeutic relationship with adults who were adopted as infants
Research suggests that adoptees are seen in therapeutic settings in a greater proportion than their prevalence in the general population (Kennedy Porch, 2007). Few studies concentrate on adult adoptees, and those that do mainly focus on adjustment and the search for / reunion with the birth family …
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