‘It’s important for me not to let go of hope’: Psychologists’ in-session experiences of hope

Autor: Keri Flesaker, Denise J. Larsen, Rachel Stege
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Reflective Practice. 14:472-486
ISSN: 1470-1103
1462-3943
DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2013.806301
Popis: Helping professionals are often expected to have a ready and limitless supply of hope. However, novice and experienced psychologists alike recognize the challenge of maintaining hope when working with difficult presenting problems and demoralized clients. As professionals, to hold hope in session while witnessing our clients’ hopelessness and experiencing our own can be very difficult. The importance of client hope is well recognized in psychotherapy research, yet research exploring psychologists’ own experiences of hope has been neglected. This study, part of a larger program of research on hope in psychological practice, invited psychologists to reflect on their experiences of hope in practice. Interpersonal Process Recall allowed psychologist-participants to view playback of their video-recorded session and reflect on their in-session experiences of hope. Using basic interpretive inquiry, this case study identified categories of: (a) psychologist self-influence on hope, (b) client-specific factors rela...
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