TY - JOUR
AU1 - Cooper, Mick
AU2 - Knox, Rosanne
AB - The aim of this study was to explore how therapists believe they may relationally disconnect from other people and their clients, with an overall objective of developing methods for enhancing relational depth in counselling and psychotherapy. Participants were 168 trainee and practicing therapists, who listed their chronic strategies of disconnections (CSoDs) in everyday relationships, and then rated the presence of these CSoDs in their therapeutic work. Thirty-nine categories of self-reported everyday CSoDs emerged, organised into seven domains. Most prevalent were behavioural, passive and intrapsychic strategies. Over half of the CSoDs were rated as being present in therapy to a minimal extent, most commonly passive CSoDs, disingenuous CSoDs and humour. Male therapists, and trainee therapists, were most likely to identify their CSoDs as present in therapy.
TI - Therapists’ self-reported chronic strategies of disconnection in everyday life and in counselling and psychotherapy: an exploratory study
JF - British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
DO - 10.1080/03069885.2017.1343457
DA - 2018-03-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/therapists-self-reported-chronic-strategies-of-disconnection-in-WP3nVtCE3p
SP - 185
EP - 200
VL - 46
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -