Adventure based counselling, individual counselling and object relations: a critical evaluation of a qualitative study
| Autor: | Alex Kyriakopoulos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling. 12:311-322 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5901 1364-2537 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13642537.2010.530104 |
| Popis: | Adventure based counselling is a short-term experiential psychotherapeutic approach, which utilises adventurous activities and being in natural environmental in order to facilitate therapeutic change in clients. The present paper critically appraises the results of a qualitative study that investigated how clients with self-reported anxiety and depression experienced participating in an innovative counselling intervention with combined individual counselling with such an adventurous outdoor transaction. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, as described by Smith and Osborn (2008), was used in order record and analyse the experiences of four male and six female students who were treated at the Teesside's University Counselling Service. Interviewees perceived the counselling sessions as offering a safe therapeutic space within which they could unveil their anxieties and achieve inner healing, whereas the outdoor transaction as providing an experiential venue for achieving personal change. Interviewees f... |
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