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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Therapy room"”.
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Photographs in the therapy room: a grounded theory study
This study explores the potential benefits of integrating photographs as a clinical tool within psychological therapies. Whilst there is a growing acknowledgment of the therapeutic value of photographs, research validating their efficacy in clinical practice remains scarce. This research gap served …
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Joy and laughter in the therapy room: a grounded theory study
… investigated moments of joy and laughter during therapy sessions when these occur simultaneously between a therapist and a client. In the context of this study, joy and laughter moments were considered as heightened affective moments that play an important part in the organisation of interactive …
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WHAT DO CLINICIANS DO? ADDRESSING WHITE CLIENTS' RACIST COMMENTS IN THE THERAPY ROOM
… clients make racist comments during individual therapy. As of this writing, very little theoretical literature and no empirical literature had been published on the topic. To address this gap in the literature, the current study used a mixed-methods design to investigate the topics. The …
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Client and therapist perspectives on the importance of the physical environment of the therapy room: A mixed methods study
… importance of the physical environment of the therapy room. More specifically, the researcher sought to uncover the level of importance that clients and therapists place on accessories, color, room design, furnishings, lighting, temperature and sound. Additionally, this study examined the …
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Stepping out of the Therapy Room - a phenomenological inquiry into what walking alongside clients in therapy offers the therapeutic process
… either identifying with specific outdoor therapy modalities or simply taking their existing clinical practice outdoors. This emerging field appears to have been fuelled by the 2019 COVID-19 health pandemic, during which, in the UK, health services altered their structure and accessibility. …
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Motherhood in the therapy room. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of mother-therapists who work with mothers who grieve for their child
The aim of this study was to gain insight into the lived experience of mother-therapists’ (therapists who are also active mothers) therapeutic work with mothers whose child had died. Through this exploration an awareness of how motherhood can shape the therapeutic encounter when working with this …
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When two bodies meet in the therapy room: a hermeneutic phenomenological exploration of the male therapists’ embodied lived experience when being with male clients with disordered eating behaviours
… and male client, what feels unbearable in the therapy room, and the connection established through their shared maleness. Discussion of these findings indicate the importance of their therapeutic, psychological, somatic, social and political implications in the contemporary world, whilst …
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The lived experience of therapists working with suicidal clients in Ghana: a heuristic study
… findings among others: 1) Attunement in the therapy room varied from therapist to therapist. However, therapists trained in the same modality tended to have similar attunement in the therapy room. Some were more bodily attuned to their clients than others; most were attuned to the time …
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Effects of a Trained Therapy Dog in Child-Centered Play Therapy on Children's Biobehavioral Measures of Anxiety
… whether combining two effective modalities, play therapy and animal-assisted therapy, would be effective in decreasing children's biobehavioral measurements of anxiety. Specifically, this study examined the effects of the presence of a trained therapy dog during one individual 30-minute play …
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The Impact of Play Therapy on Decreasing Anxiety in Children
… that can help regulate anxiety, including Play Therapy. Play Therapy is a method of therapy that uses a psychotherapeutic approach to help children deal with psychological and emotional concerns through playing. The goal of play therapy is to have little to no rules within the play therapy room …
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Exploring the influence of Bollywood films on the identity of British second-generation South-Asian men
… that South-Asian men may present in the therapy room and how to better assist them.
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Unearthing the complexity of stigma: a narrative inquiry into clients’ experiences of stigma and psychotherapy
… of stigma that surrounds psychological therapy through in depth interviews. Each participant had attended at least twelve sessions of weekly therapy whilst also acknowledging a sense of stigma attached to it. Interview conversations took place on a one-to-one basis with three …
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An interpretative phenomenological analysis of counselling psychology trainees experiences of practice-based research training
… sometimes anxious, experiences in the therapy room . Links to and disconnections from wider contexts, and the possible implications of these findings are discussed. In particular, I explore whether a future framework involving practice-based research as the doctoral thesis might be …
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A Qualitative Examination of Facilitators and Barriers to MBC Utilization in Post-Graduate Clinicians
… on that data to guide decision making in the therapy room. These three components are well described and widely accepted as the Collect-Share-Act model of MBC. Despite strong evidence for its effectiveness, implementation remains rare. Implementation of full fidelity MBC, that is, MBC with all …
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Play Therapist's Perspectives on Culturally Sensitive Play Therapy
<p>The Association for Play Therapy (2009) promotes play therapists’ awareness of personal cultural identity, obtaining continuous cultural knowledge, and displaying culturally appropriate practices. Play therapy research includes studies on working with specific culturally diverse populations. …
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How do clinicians respond to the faith identity of young Muslims in a London Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) clinical context? An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
… focuses on what the clinician brings to the room, both consciously and unconsciously, rather than locating issues of difference solely in the patient. This is important because the clinician is a participant in an inter-subjective process, rather than a neutral, objective observer. The …
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Co-Constructing Cultural Attunement with Latino Clients in Couple Therapy
… for culturally attuned approaches for couple’s therapy with Mexican/ Mexican-American people (Falicov, 2009). However, there have been few theoretical frameworks to conceptualize cultural attunement, and attunement has been primarily understood as a skill or as an attitude rather than as a …
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The importance of practitioner and client accounts of context in mental health
… 2: The need to work with context beyond the therapy room; 3: “My context is their context”: Influences on the ability to work with context; and 4: Sources of validation for working with context. The findings revealed a desire to work with context and examples of successes but also the …
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Intersectionality and power: an autoethnographic exploration of a psychotherapist’s narratives of oppression and their impact on her sense of self
… contexts, impacted who I was or could be, in the therapy room, both as a client and a psychological therapist. In particular, I was curious about how the stories I told about my socio-cultural and political identities influenced my experiences of power or powerlessness in my relationships to …
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The Efficacy of a Key Word Signing Workshop
… producing ASL signs; (c) use of KWS in the classroom or therapy room; and (d) perceived changes from taking part in a KWS workshop. Participants included five special education teachers, three SLPs, and four students with complex communication needs (aged 3 to 14 years) participated in the study. …
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