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 -