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A Systematic Review of Psychological Interventions for Sustaining Intimate Relationships in Older Age Open
Introduction This systematic review aims to identify and evaluate existing evidence on the effectiveness of psychological and therapeutic interventions for supporting intimacy, including emotional and physical affection, in adults aged 65 …
Acceptability and Preliminary Effects of Intensive Brief Trauma-Focused PTSD Treatment for Refugees Open
Background: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a significant mental health concern in refugee populations exposed to trauma and displacement. Traditional treatments for PTSD often involve lengthy interventions. However, there's a gro…
Improving the integration of care for trans adults: ICTA a mixed-methods study Open
Background This research concerns improving the National Health Service health services trans adults need. These include the national specialist Gender Identity Clinics that support people making a medical transition. Not all trans people …
Mental health practitioners’ perceptions of online working: a literature review Open
A move to online therapy, observed in counselling courses within the UK during the global Covid-19 pandemic, prompted a research team of counselling educators to undertake a rapid literature review to explore the perceptions and experience…
View article: The role of BACP in maximising the potential of counselling and psychological therapies research in the UK: Benefitting clients, communities, and societies
The role of BACP in maximising the potential of counselling and psychological therapies research in the UK: Benefitting clients, communities, and societies Open
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is the largest professional membership body within the field of counselling and psychological therapies in the UK, but there is a mismatch between its membership of >65,000 a…
The Impact of Relational Depth on Subjective Well-being in Close Relationships in the Community Open
Relational depth (RD)—moments of profound connection and engagement between two people—is a humanistic–existential construct, showing preliminary association with psychological growth in psychotherapy. This research investigates the impact…
Creating an Open Online Educational Resource to Support Learners as They Navigate Their Studies Alongside Work and/or Family Open
As labour markets undergo rapid and profound transformations, lifelong learning is essential to ensure a responsive, competitive, and skilled workforce. Mature learners are a diverse group, but in comparison to their younger student counte…
Positive Digital Practices: Supporting Positive Learner Identities and Student Mental Wellbeing in Technology-Enhanced Higher Education Open
Embedding mental wellbeing in learning is a priority for the UK Higher Education sector, as increasing numbers of students disclose mental health difficulties, challenges and conditions. Technology-enhanced, distance and blended learning i…
The emotional labour of teleworkers conducting online counselling during Covid‐19. Open
Drawing on emotional labour theory, this paper explores the barriers to emotionally complex telework, with a specific focus on the space, interface and pace of work. We examine the working lives of mental health counsellors who adapted fro…
Therapists' and counsellors' perceptions and experiences of offering online therapy during COVID‐19: A qualitative survey Open
Objective The aim of this research was to understand counsellors' and therapists' perceptions and experiences of working online during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Method Five hundred and ninety clinicians, mostly UK‐based, responded to an onlin…
View article: Being a mother with anorexia: A phenomenological study of seeking and receiving professional support for white heterosexual women in the UK
Being a mother with anorexia: A phenomenological study of seeking and receiving professional support for white heterosexual women in the UK Open
Mothers are currently under‐represented in the literature on anorexia, including research on treatment, with most research focussed on female adolescents. This raises questions about how adult women and particularly those who are mothers, …
Distance education students’ mental health, connectedness and academic performance during COVID-19: A mixed-methods study Open
In this study, we investigated the links between distance education students’ mental health, connectedness, and academic performance during COVID-19, using a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design. Online survey responses with a sampl…
Video counselling and psychotherapy: A critical commentary on the evidence base Open
Pre‐pandemic research has suggested that video counselling is as effective as face‐to‐face practice. However, the mass migration of therapy to the online video domain as a result of the COVID‐19 pandemic makes it essential to interrogate t…
Counsellors in the National Health Service: A mixed‐method study of efficacy and satisfaction from the counsellor perspective Open
Background It is difficult to know how many counsellors work in the UK 's National Health Service ( NHS ). At a time when the British Government is pledging an expansion of the mental health workforce, it is important to understand both th…
View article: O33 Qualitative story completion: an innovative method with exciting potential for health research
O33 Qualitative story completion: an innovative method with exciting potential for health research Open
Background Story completion asks the participant to produce a story, in response to an open, sometimes ambiguous, scenario. As a method for qualitative research, it is relatively unknown. Yet the method has deep roots, with origins in psyc…
O36 Using story completion tasks to explore perceptions about mental health in a work context Open
Background Increasing numbers of people struggle with mental health issues in western industrial nations, including the UK and Germany, with about a quarter of the population experiencing mental health problems in the space of a year (WHO/…
View article: Qualitative story completion: Possibilities and potential pitfalls - Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Hannah Frith, Nikki Hayfield, Helen Malson, Naomi Moller and Iduna Shah-Beckley in conversation
Qualitative story completion: Possibilities and potential pitfalls - Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Hannah Frith, Nikki Hayfield, Helen Malson, Naomi Moller and Iduna Shah-Beckley in conversation Open
Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Hannah Frith, Nikki Hayfield, Helen Malson, Naomi Moller and Iduna Shah-Beckley came together at the University of the West of England (UWE) in July 2017 to discuss, and share their enthusiasm for, the stor…
View article: Correction: Receiving, or ‘Adopting’, Donated Embryos to Have Children: Parents Narrate and Draw Kinship Boundaries
Correction: Receiving, or ‘Adopting’, Donated Embryos to Have Children: Parents Narrate and Draw Kinship Boundaries Open
The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper published in Genealogy (Tasker et al., 2018), reflecting regrettable misrepresentation of one research participant’s experience [...]
View article: Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue: <i>Using Story Completion Methods in Qualitative Research</i>
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue: <i>Using Story Completion Methods in Qualitative Research</i> Open
What is story completion? How come I’ve never heard of it? Can it be useful for me as a qualitative researcher? A relatively unknown method for qualitative data collection, story completion has a long history of use in psychotherapy practi…
Receiving, or ‘Adopting’, Donated Embryos to Have Children: Parents Narrate and Draw Kinship Boundaries Open
Existing research suggests that embryo donation (ED) may be seen as similar to adoption by those who donate or receive embryos, or it may not. Our qualitative study explored whether having a child via embryo donation initiated kinship conn…
View article: Story completion: The best* new method for qualitative data collection you’ve never even heard of
Story completion: The best* new method for qualitative data collection you’ve never even heard of Open
What is story completion? How come I’ve never heard of it? Can it be useful for me as a qualitative researcher? A relatively unknown method for qualitative data collection, story completion has a long history of use in psychotherapy practi…
How should we evaluate research on counselling and the treatment of depression? A case study on how the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's draft 2018 guideline for depression considered what counts as best evidence Open
Background Health guidelines are developed to improve patient care by ensuring the most recent and ‘best available evidence’ is used to guide treatment recommendations. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's ( NICE 's ) gu…
View article: Once upon a time...: Qualitative story completion methods
Once upon a time...: Qualitative story completion methods Open
This chapter introduces the story completion (SC) method of collecting qualitative data, a novel technique that offers intriguing potential to the qualitative researcher. Since the method is new to qualitative research, it has fewer publis…
New frontiers of family - Naomi Moller and Victoria Clarke explore embryo donation and voluntary childlessness, ahead of their Society seminar series Open
March sees the first of four seminars on ‘New Frontiers of Family’, a British Psychological Society sponsored series that aims to examine the psychological implications of emerging forms of family in the UK – those beyond genetic relatedne…