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Bartlam, Bernadette. "Counselling in reproductive medicine : research, ethics and practice." Thesis, Keele University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398911.
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Graham, Tom. "Values and ethics in counselling psychology training and practice : discourses amongst final year trainees." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2013. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/values-and-ethics-in-counselling-psychology-training-and-practice(20d12e67-ae50-4f29-8b60-5c3bd0947ef4).html.
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Whilst the literature underpinning counselling psychology generally acknowledges that values and ethics are inherent in therapy1, the different ways in which they feature and to what effect are under-explored areas. Though therapeutic literature would seem to recommend that counselling psychologists take a critically reflexive approach to values and ethics, the extent to which counselling psychology training engenders this kind of thinking is unclear. This research project therefore set about examining the ways in which values and ethics were constructed in the talk of final year trainee counselling psychologists discussing values and ethics in counselling psychology training and practice. Four focus groups comprising a total of nineteen participants were conducted and transcribed. The transcripts were analysed using Willig’s (2008) six-stage approach to Foucauldian discourse analysis, identifying and exploring the ways in which participants constructed values and ethics in counselling psychology training and practice. The analysis examined the implications of the different constructions identified for counselling psychology training and practice and the subjective experience of counselling psychologists within these contexts. Three discursive constructions of values and two of ethics were identified, drawing on four discourses. The use of each discourse produced its own effects, offering participants different subject positions with different consequences for their therapy practice and subjective experience. The relationship between contrasting constructions of values and ethics from within an institutional and a humanistic discourse dominated discussion and appeared to have greatest impact on participants’ practice and subjectivity. Tensions were experienced between the differing demands of the institutional and humanistic discourses, resulting in feelings of dissonance and discomfort, as participants tried to mediate between contrasting constructions in an attempt to forge a coherent sense of identity and practice involving both.
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Ryan, Lucy. "Counselling psychologists' talk of 'authenticity' : exploring the implications of 'authenticity' discourse for ethical practice." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2012. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/counselling-psychologists-talk-of-authenticity-exploring-the-implications-of-authenticity-discourse-for-ethical-practice(ecccff77-190f-4c46-96e5-9eaebc2da074).html.
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This research explores how ‘authenticity’ is constructed in counselling psychology and asks what the ethical implications of this commonly taken-for-granted value might be. A discourse analytic approach known as ‘critical discursive psychology’ was used to examine eight counselling psychologists’ talk of ‘authenticity’ in semi-structured interviews. The analysis suggested that counselling psychologists may draw on a number of interpretative repertoires regarding ‘authenticity’, using them to establish their identity and negotiate their relationships with clients. However, taken together these repertoires might be said to form an ‘authenticity ideal’, which often functions to position the therapist as authentic and the client as inauthentic. Furthermore, in drawing upon various psychotherapeutic and humanistic discourses, the participants in this study appeared to be distanced from their power in positioning clients as inauthentic, although they demonstrated a problematizing of their own ‘authenticity’ in relation to the need for professional boundaries. This research suggests that talk of ‘authenticity’ tends to locate therapeutic action within a humanistic moral discourse of self-unity. This is of concern because the emphasis on individualism may lead therapists to underestimate the social and relational context of their clients’ difficulties. It should be noted that this critique falls not on the individuals involved in this research, for their answers were consistent with a range of accepted theoretical guidelines; but instead upon the reification of authenticity within counselling psychology and Western society in general. The participants in this study further problematized ‘authenticity’ in terms of needing to balance it with the demands of training and employment organisations. It was found that ii both institutional power and individual embodiment may act as ‘extra-discursive’ influences and constraints upon ‘authenticity’ discourse; however, the methodological feasibility of a critical-realist epistemology within discursive research is questioned. The limitations of the research findings and their relevance for reflexive practice are considered.
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Wong, Shyh-Heng. "Suffering transaction : a process of reflecting and understanding." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5825.
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This study examines the transaction of the lived experience of ‘suffering’ in the process of psychotherapy. ‘Suffering’ is conceptualised as having its weight and value transacted between a psychotherapist and his or her client. As a psychotherapist from a family with a disabled member, my fieldwork in a hospital with the parents of disabled children was conducted in Taiwan. The development of our therapeutic relationship was discovered as the process of ‘suffering transaction’: the interaction of lived experience of suffering between my clients and myself. Two clients took part in this study in which eight to ten sessions of counselling or psychotherapy were conducted and transcribed as the research data. The data also included my lived experience, which was made explicit in this field work through records of six sessions of therapeutic supervision and my self-reflective therapeutic diary and research journal. Inspired by Gee’s (2000) work on data presentation, my understanding of client’s stories is represented as poetic form. Reflections from the use of reflexivity explore the inter-correlations of ‘suffering’ between us. The theoretical perspective informing the further analysis of this study is hermeneutic phenomenology and social suffering. The socio-cultural embodiments in language are explored as the hermeneutic horizons of the theme of suffering transaction. Politically, the development of ‘early intervention’ in Taiwan creates as ‘unjust’ context for those encountering medical services, and this shared understanding of the medical bureaucracy influenced the psychotherapeutic encounter. The analysis also explores the influence of Confucian approaches to gender difference and family ethics, and Christian religious beliefs, in relation to the self-identification of my clients in suffering for other. These three horizons indicate that searching for the meaning of suffering is an inter-subjective process that entails taking the responsibility for the ‘Other’ as the symbolic socio-cultural body. The thesis concludes with discussion about the ethics of the therapeutic relationship. I argue that in psychotherapy, both therapist and client are engaged in the Levinasian idea of the primordial responsibility ‘for’ the other. In the context of wider debates about psychotherapy as an ethical practice, I argue that a therapist has the pre-moral position of not only witnessing client’s lived experience of suffering but also being witnessed by the client. This study provides an example in which the context of ‘witness’ is inter-subjectively developed in psychotherapy.
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Rogers, Anne. "Ethical complaints : towards a best practice for psychotherapy and counselling organisations." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2013. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13062/.
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In this research I review the experiences of people who have made complaints against their therapists and of therapists who have received such complaints. These are complaints which have involved ethical contraventions and boundary violations and have been addressed by either the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy or the British Psychoanalytic Council. As far as I can ascertain there has been no published research into such experiences. Alongside this I review the experiences of members of Ethics Committees who make decisions about complaints. I briefly review with the complainant and therapist the processes leading up to the complaint; then in more detail the therapist’s response to the complainant; any support received; the experience of the tribunal and the aftermath of this. I have not had the opportunity to interview both therapist and complainant involved in the same complaint. Ethical issues of sensitivity, a non-intrusive approach and confidentiality and anonymity were of paramount importance throughout the research. At all times I endeavour to involve interviewees in the process and to ensure that they gave their informed consent to anything written. The focus throughout is on the participants’ experience. Interviews with both complainants and respondents employed a partially guided storytelling, narrative approach which allowed for rich and evocative storytelling. A number of recurring issues are highlighted. The interviews exposed wide differences between the reality experienced and the expectations which therapists had of the support that organisations were prepared to offer. Therapists and complainants were often unprepared for, and shocked by, the quasi-legalism of the complaints process and the lack of any process of alternative dispute resolution. An analysis of complaints showed differences between the numbers and types of complaints made to male and female therapists. Chairs of Ethics Committees from different modalities in UKCP and BPC whom I interviewed regarding their experiences of handling complaints often expressed anxiety and at times frustration at the confines of the written complaints procedures. Issues around confidentiality often lead to secrecy and feelings of isolation. Provisions for ethics training within the organisations’ are explored alongside any provisions for learning from the experiences of complaints. Research showed there was a very wide range of such provision. To set these experiences within a wider context a review of complaints received by other organisations; the General Medical Council, Health Professions Council and the Office of the Independent Adjudicator [Universities] is presented. By focusing attention on the human aspect of therapy breakdown I hope that this research will influence the way complaints are handled and, where appropriate, initiate changes in procedures.
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Hodges, Ian Colin. "A problem aired : exploring radio therapeutic discourse and ethical self-formation." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288013.
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Baker, Erin Sullivan. "A therapist moving beyond therapy into applied theatre practice : a personal account by a Rogerian practitioner." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18347.
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As a Rogerian mental health therapist, a personal journey was taken that establishes my practice ethics as an applied theatre practitioner. What was undertaken was the unpacking of a practice ethics gained through my training as an actor and therapist. This thesis examines the role of codes or standards of practice in humanistic counselling, applied theatre and a synthesized practice between both. Standards of practice shape these practices through the specific ideologies relevant within the institutional cultures in which the practice is applied. This is especially problematic when the institutional setting understands care delivery as practice shaped by problem identification, interventions and expected outcome goals. Further, the ideology that underpins the standard, becomes self-reinforcing and tends to exert influence over what type of practice is culturally relevant or considered best practice within the institutional setting. This is of concern for practitioners who practice from a different or multiple ideological base from the institutional setting in which they work. A shaping goal of the research was to test-out, through critical evaluation, if the American Counseling Association's (ACA's) standards of practice was relevant and applicable to a synthesized practice between humanistic counselling practice and applied theatre practice. The results posed by the critical evaluation suggest that the ACAs standard is not applicable because it promotes empirical, or rather, evidenced-based models of practice over humanist ones. Because of its limited scope of application, the ACAs model is not applicable to synthesized or dual practices that bridge particular fields. Through lines of valuing within bridged fields, usually represent multiple ideological drivers. It was found that as a standard of practice the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) standard is a better fit. It is compatible with social construction. Within the research Carl Rogers' humanistic, client-centered and non-directive therapy is contrasted with Joseph Chaikin's brand of experimental theatre exemplified in his The Presence of the Actor. Chaikin's book is used as a tool to reconstruct examples of what I came to understand as ethical practice while attending drama school in the UK. The understandings gleaned by the juxtaposition impacts how I understand the ACAs utility as a practitioner.
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Hart, Nicola Margaret Tessa. "Power, relationships and ethics in counselling psychology." Thesis, City University London, 2002. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7655/.
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Introduction This portfolio focuses on the issues of power and ethics within relationship in the practice of counselling psychology. The impetus behind the work came from a desire to acknowledge that power is part of all relationships and as the practice of counselling psychology is based on relationship it would be interesting to explore the impact of the power dynamic within three different types of relationship contexts. The aim of the work is to explore relationships within counselling psychology in terms of power dynamics and consider the ethical issues and challenges that these may raise for counselling psychologists. The portfolio includes an exploration of three types of relationship that counselling psychologists are typically engaged with; the therapeutic relationship with the client, the supervisory relationship with the supervisee and the research relationship with the research participant. Each type of relationship is examined with a view to identifying how power is exercised and perceived and what challenges this raises for counselling psychologists in terms of ethical issues. Section A: Preface In the preface I firstly provide a summary of my career history to date and secondly an overview of the other three sections included in the portfolio. It is my aim to show consistency across the areas of my research and their relevance to the profession of counselling psychology. Section B: Research: An exploration of the dynamics of power within a therapeutic relationship. Section B comprises a report on a study into the dynamics of power within a therapeutic relationship. The purpose of the study was to identify strategies used within therapeutic discourse to manage the therapeutic relationship with particular reference to the dynamic of power. The study uses a micro-analytical technique to analyse the interaction between the therapist and client in one twenty minute film clip from a therapy session conducted by Dr Carl Rogers. The conclusions of the study suggest that communication between therapist and client occurs on a number of levels and serves a number of functions. One of these functions is to manage the power dynamic within the relationship. The methodology used in this study proves a useful tool for counselling psychologists to study process aspects of psychotherapy and the theoretical base in critical theory, post-modern philosophy and linguistics offers an additional body of knowledge which may enlighten our understanding of the therapeutic process. Section C Case work: Reflections on clinical supervision: an analysis of the supervisory relationship with three supervisees. Section C provides an analysis of three supervisory relationships experienced in my role as a clinical supervisor. This section continues the theme of relationship and explores the way in which counselling psychologists may function as supervisors within their professional context. Although there are many models of supervision within the literature, few of these are specifically relevant to counselling psychology. Supervision is a process with enormous influence in the training of professional therapists and it may be the case that as counselling psychologists we need to consider our responsibilities as supervisors in the development of the profession. Section D Critical Review of the Literature: Ethical Issues in interview based qualitative research in counselling psychology Section D concludes the portfolio with a literature review on ethical issues in qualitative research in counselling psychology, again highlighting the importance of relationship. This review focuses on the overlap between research and practice in counselling psychology. As scientist-practitioners counselling psychologists base their practice on research findings and in recent years there has been a growth in the use of qualitative methodologies within therapeutic research. In particular the qualitative interview has many similarities with a therapeutic interview and much of the literature reviewed presents this as a positive parallel. The review explores the similarities and differences between therapeutic and research relationships and the ethics of fading the boundary between the two.
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Daniel, Marguerite. "Private practice in counselling and psychotherapy." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2004. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504822.
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Davies, Sarah. "Temporality in addiction and counselling psychology practice." Thesis, City University London, 2014. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/14786/.
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This mixed-methods study investigates psychological perspectives of time in a group of sixty-three individuals seeking help for alcohol/drug issues and who successfully completed a residential addiction treatment intervention. Measures of subjective time perspective (TP) were taken before and after treatment using a quantitative scale (short-form ZTPI) and a qualitative component to capture additional phenomenological experiences of time. Measures of depression and anxiety were also taken pre and post treatment. Overall significant positive associations were found between time perspectives, in particular past-negative, present-fatalism and present-hedonistic time orientations and depression and anxiety. Significant negative relationships were also found between mental health and past-positive and future time perspectives. Distinct changes were reported in temporality between pre and post measures of the addiction treatment intervention from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Associations were again made with more positive mental health at the post-treatment phase. The potential use and implications of findings for understanding addiction and considering psychotherapeutic treatment is discussed.
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Mann, Elizabeth June. "Counselling psychology in the Church : potential and practice." Thesis, City University London, 2001. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8217/.
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This case study describes the organisation inherent in the initiation and development of a counselling service in the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester. The aim was to provide counselling for clergy and their families which was based on professional standards of counselling psychology for both the client and the organisation of the diocese. The history of the situation in the diocese and the author's prior involvement which had led to this initiative are recorded in the background to this study in Appendix 1. This describes how the need for an organised professional counselling service had become increasingly evident as a result of-, [i] a vacuum left by the breakdown of the previous network of professionally unqualified helpers [ii] the growing incidence of clergy client work [iii] the bishop's need for clergy psychological assessment to assist in his decision making [iv] the lessons learned from the experience of the Diocese of Sheffield. [v] the need for competent practice by professionally qualified and supervised counsellors. The author became increasingly aware that such a counselling service needed to be formally and clearly structured, easily accessible, and reflect both high standards of counselling from the profession of counselling psychology for the client and also the theory and research which was currently emerging about counselling in organisations. The clergy counselling service aimed to be tailor-made to suit the size, culture, ministry, location and workforce of the diocese. The Dioceseo Gloucester is a predominantly rural diocese. It comprises a large part of the Cotswolds with their traditionally wealthy farming communities, the Forest of Dean which is an impoverished former mining area, and the large towns of Cheltenham and Gloucester between the two. The diocese has 325 parishes 238 licensed clergy and 225 licensed( lay) Readers.
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Menachem, Meir. "The role of counselling psychology in general practice." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409161.
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Morrigan, Viviane School of History & Philosophy of Science UNSW. "An ethics of reproductive choice : genetic counselling and prenatal diagnosis." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of History & Philosophy of Science, 2002. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/19396.
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For this project I describe the socio-historical development of a particular application of genetic prenatal diagnosis, in terms of changing social relations that govern an ethics of reproductive choice. I examine ways that medicine and government articulate prenatal diagnosis to problematise the maternal body and govern women's reproductive choices about chromosomal abnormality in the fetus. Since its introduction in the early 1970s, the major use of prenatal diagnosis has been to detect chromosomal abnormalities-in particular, Down syndrome-in the fetus. Medico-scientific knowledge claims negotiated in everyday practices in the genetic counselling clinic between health professionals and their clients are situated within broader social relations. Negotiations between medicine and government have produced technoscientific possibilities, realised with greater or lesser success in the co-construction of a workable prenatal diagnosis standardised package. I describe how these socio-technical relations have produced similarities and differences across time, and national and professional boundaries. My analysis draws on observations in three genetic counselling clinics, and of the health professionals' other work activities. I also draw on interviews with them and other actors in that arena, as well as claims made about prenatal diagnosis technologies in the medico-scientific literature. I analyse my data using concepts developed in social worlds/arenas theory within a Foucauldian framework of social relations that govern the body. Since the early formation of a standardised package of genetic counselling about amniocentesis, ethical decisions about prenatal diagnosis have identified multiple parts of the self to be governed. This ethics has relied on a duty to make genetically responsible decisions as a particular way to relate to oneself, although it has been expressed in different ways. Newer technologies have articulated greater ethical possibilities for governing the self by co-constructing new ways of assembling the constituent components. Throughout, there have been tensions between two major aims for governing the self: that of giving birth to a healthy baby, and that of managing maternal rationality in order to act as an autonomous rational individual. I have thus described how a woman's use of prenatal diagnosis is not simply one of individual choice. Her decision is a complex ethical one that is historically and socially contingent on relations between medicine and government that present the maternal body in certain ways for her to act upon herself.
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Bond, Tim. "HIV counselling : ethical issues in an emerging professional role." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/985/.
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The development of HIV counselling has been one of the major public policy innovations in response to the challenges posed by HIV and AIDS in Britain. This research, using a participative and qualitative methodology, examines how HIV counsellors have conceptualised their approach to the ethical issues associated with their innovatory role. The research takes an overview of two separate phases of fieldwork conducted in 1990 and 1994. The first phase concentrated on establishing the background of self-identified HIV counsellors and how they related to the wider counselling movement which had already developed a distinctive ethic founded on respect for individual autonomy. Their general identification with the wider counselling movement raised issues how this ethic could govern their work with clients affected by HIV. The second phase concentrated on the management of confidentiality within multidisciplinary teams. The results of the research are set within the wider ethical and socio-historical context of AIDS policy development in Britain and explore changes in how HIV counsellors conceptualise ethical issues in the local context of their work. The methodology is that of `descriptive ethical inquiry' accompanied by examination of how this type of inquiry relates to moral philosophy and social sciences. The method of participative research adopted is consultative and careful consideration is given to how this type of research relates to comparable procedures used in the production of professional codes of ethics.
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Hirst, O. "Openness to the other : considering context in counselling psychology practice." Thesis, City, University of London, 2017. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/19092/.
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Ideas around nature improving wellbeing are strengthening, and an increasing number of therapists are choosing to work outdoors. There is a paucity of research focused on the impact of working therapeutically outdoors. The present study aims to contribute to an emerging theory: How does working outdoors impact the therapeutic relationship? A constructivist grounded theory methodology (Charmaz, 2006) was adopted for this study and 9 semi-structured interviews were conducted with therapists who work outdoors around the UK. The data was analysed in accordance with this methodology. A core research category ‘Constructing the Therapeutic Relationship’ was generated and comprised four categories: Using Nature as a Therapeutic Opportunity, Allowing the Outdoors to Effect Change, Constructing the Therapist Role, and Power dynamics in the Therapeutic Relationship: Outdoors vs indoors. The findings indicate that the therapists use the varied therapeutic opportunities afforded by working in a dynamic environment to enhance the therapeutic relationship. The outdoor environment alters the internal states of the therapists and their clients, and becomes part of the therapeutic relationship by blurring the boundaries between the therapeutic space and the relationship. The outdoors also alters the therapeutic roles and therapists actively reconstruct therapeutic roles to maintain the relationship. Finally working outdoors highlights and begins to balance power dynamics within the relationship. These findings are contextualised with existing research and theories drawn from different disciplines.
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Rasquinha, Prabhu Sandhya Miriam. "Developing counselling practice in south India : a participatory action research." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16356/.
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Professional counselling in India is an emerging field where current practice is largely influenced by Western models of counselling. These methods are integrated with methods of Indian holistic healing. There is limited research and reviewed literature in this field in India. Most mental health research is based on psychiatry and social work. The aim of this study is to explore practitioner experiences in the social reality of their practice using a culturally sensitive, strengths perspective. These strengths stem from the individual’s core and develop within the influence of culture. This study will examine current personal and professional experiences of trained practising psychological counsellors, create awareness about strengths and develop a goal for the emancipation of professional counsellors in the given cultural context. This qualitative research has a Participatory Action Research (PAR) design with seven participants in a PAR group setting. The data collected over 10 meetings across 8 months was recorded and transcribed by me. The data was analysed using a non-interpretive, recursive, reflexive analysis. The major findings are the realities of practice and effects of socio-cultural influences on the professional counsellor, for instance: age, gender, spirituality, language, cultural expectations and strengths. The transformative outcome was professional awareness of being instruments of change and to enable change in social reality. It also led to the development of a support group for practising counsellors. The research process was emancipatory as it directed participants to acknowledge their value as Indian counsellors, voice their need for professional recognition and begin a process of liberation by implementing their own growth and awareness socially and in practice. The methodological approach, findings and outcome of the study are intended to be disseminated through publications in counselling, educational peer reviewed journals and presentation of papers at conferences. This aims to impact counselling training, research and practice. It will also enhance the limited body of existing knowledge in psychological counselling in India.
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Sandenbergh, Rob. "AIDS/representation and psychological practice : (inter)subjectivity in HIV counselling." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13501.
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Bibliography: leaves 52-63.This study undertakes a discourse analysis of a counselling session with an HIV positive man. Literature, informed by post-structuralism, on the representations and practices that surround the HIV/AIDS epidemic is examined as a background to the study. Self psychological theory concerning mourning, the psychodynamic consequences of having AIDS and selfobject phantasies is examined. This theory is criticised for ignoring the content of phantasies as well as the imbrication of the subject within the social. In an attempt to address these gaps theorisation of stigma and gendered development is introduced, as well as Hollway's (1984) broadly Foucauldian notions of investment in subject positionings. A multiple theoretical position conceptualising counselling as (inter)subjective process re-producing particular subject positionings is developed. The relations between various subject positions are described, drawing on self psychological theory to consider the investments the participants in the session may have had in each position. The analytic reading suggests that in the elaboration of particular selfobject phantasies the HIV positive client is able to cohese his sense of self and to disavow a knowing of himself as a stigmatised person with AIDS. The counsellor, through subject positionings which are in conjuncture with those of the client, disavows a knowing of the client as a person with AIDS. Through these positionings a necessary allusion of attunement is produced, allowing the counsellor to mirror the client. From this analysis various implications for consultation, supervision and training are drawn. The study .suggests that multiple ways in which HIV I AIDS is represented requires psychologists to explore their own positionings with regards to salient HIV/AIDS related issues, as these positionings have effects in work in this field.
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Desjardins, Chloé. "Affective Alteration: Co-Constructing Resilience in Alternative Psychotherapy Counselling Practice." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41448.
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The conceptual use of resilience has gained much popularity since the 1970s, positioning post-trauma resilience parallel to the paradigm of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder to offer a new possibility for healing and a new understanding of illness and suffering during the course of a neoliberal turn in psychiatry. In this thesis, it is shown how suffering and vulnerability becomes a source of authenticity rather than a source of a pathological illness. Through fieldwork with Resilience Summit, an alternative private counselling practice for psychotherapy that combines a feminist intersectional approach to traumatology, resilience is approached as a prototype capable of changing subjectivities because it permeates everyday feelings and actions. It does so by utilizing the flexible framework of resilience, as both inherent and cultivated, to create new capabilities, existential perspectives, and relationships in a therapeutic social network. There is the reconstruction of a condition of being through life narratives that are formed and reworked by the labour of emotional regulation and interaction. A new sense of resilient identity can consequently follow by achieving posttraumatic growth and collective engagement. However, Resilience Summit operates by means of affective governance which has been seen in contemporary resilience neoliberal discourses. It is possible to question to which degree Resilience Summit embraces neoliberal discourses of resilience in the context of a private practice.
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Thasiah, Victor. "Divine practice : Barth's basis for ethics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442905.
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Canton, Robert. "Justice and ethics in penal practice." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/5038.
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This volume begins with a critical commentary on a selection of works published by Robert Canton between 1997 and 2007. Works and commentary are now submitted in 2007 in partial fulfilment of a PhD by a published work. The works themselves make up the rest of the volume. Much of the writing emerged from the author's attempts to make sense of the challenges of working as a probation officer and to practise in a manner that not only ‘works’, but is fair and wise. The overview demonstrates the development in the author's thinking over several years. The context and chronology of the writings are set out and the books themselves are summarised. The commentary then proceeds to try to identify some constant, though developing, themes and so to demonstrate that a set of writings with diverse titles can be seen to amount to a thesis. Two themes stand out: the concept of legitimacy which points to the need for (and possibility of) an alliance between moral principles and effective practice the complexity of ‘penality’ - both in terms of the influences that shape it and of its many meanings, functions and consequences. The commentary concludes with an attempt to identify the original contributions to knowledge made through these works.
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Hanna, Paul. "Consuming sustainable tourism : ethics, identity, practice." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2011. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/e7073b3d-9105-4872-93e3-f4e9faedf906.
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In recent years, contemporary western society has played witness to a growth in the production, promotion, and consumption of ostensibly ‘ethical’ products such as Fair Trade goods. Such commodities are characterised by an emphasis on rebalancing inequalities that ‘mass’ production/consumption are said to create. This thesis takes sustainable tourism as a novel example of such concerns. With recent inroads in psychology and the social sciences suggesting that the practice of consumption represents a prominent ‘mode’ for ‘identity work’ (including class identities), the consumption of ‘ethical’ products may arguably signify the manifestation of ‘ethical identity/identities’. However, ‘ethics’ and ‘identity’ are ambiguous words with significant concerns surrounding the ‘ethics’ of ‘ethical’ products, and the extent to which individuals exhibit ‘ethical identity/identities’ through the consumption of such goods. Building on Michael Foucault’s ‘technologies of self’ and ‘ethics’, this thesis seeks to contribute to our understanding of ‘ethics’, ‘identity’, and ‘practice’ in relation to sustainable tourism.
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Kahya, H. "'I feel whole today' : mind and body in counselling psychology practice." Thesis, City, University of London, 2014. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/16080/.
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The current study investigated the experience of the Yoga Therapy for the Mind (YTFTM) 8-week course, a manualised yoga and mindfulness-based intervention, for mild to moderate depression and anxiety. Eight female students from across four YTFTM courses participated in semi-structured interviews exploring their experiences of the course. Interviews were analysed using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, with thirteen subordinate themes emerging and grouping into four super-ordinate themes: Personal Journey of Change, Ambivalence, Mind/Body Connection and Group Experience. The findings of the study have been interpreted in light of relevant literature from across the fields of psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist and yogic philosophy. The findings echo previous research into comparable mindfulness-based courses, but suggest there may also be additional psychological benefits to the practice of yoga asana. These added benefits include a more holistic and embodied understanding of psychological distress and adaptive coping strategies, as well as enhanced wellbeing. Recommendations have been made with a view to influencing future courses and Counselling Psychologists interested in developing a more holistic approach to therapy.
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Stroud, James G. P. "Cultural influences in research and therapeutic practice : a counselling psychology perspective." Thesis, City University London, 2015. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/14559/.
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This empirical study explores ‘Men’s experiences of being circumcised men’ using the methodological approach of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with eight adult participants. The interview data was analysed using the IPA protocol (Smith, Flowers, & Larkin, 2009). From this analysis, three main themes emerged: The first is ‘Who am I? – Circumcision and my Self’ in which the participants’ experiences of male group belonging, feeling different from other men, and their perception of others are explored. The second main theme is ‘The physical experience – Circumcision and my body’ exploring how the men talk about circumcision affecting their bodies, in the way it looks, feels and in terms of how they talk about health and the impact of the procedure itself. The final theme that emerges is ‘Reflecting on the decision’ in which the men’s experiences of the choice that was made and their sense of whether it was ‘right’ are presented. The three main themes are discussed in relation to broad theories of body image, theories of identity and theories of male hegemony, drawing tentative links between these. Throughout the research process the impact of culture and context acts as a background that informs the study. The findings have implications for Counselling Psychologists who work with men who enter therapy and for whom such issues may remain unexplored. The research informs the male circumcision debate and offers a way of understanding opposing viewpoints. The quality, transferability and limitations of the study are considered together with a discussion of the findings in the light of theory and research. Areas for future research are suggested.
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Kong, Hoi. "Mahāyāna ethics : the practice of two truths." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28285.
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Despite its considerable influence Damien Keown's The Nature of Buddhist Ethics has not received an extended criticism, and the goal of this thesis is to attempt this task. I direct two general criticisms against the text. The first questions its teleological model of Buddhist ethics and the second interrogates its binary model of human psychology, which excludes the notion of the will.
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Kong, Hoi. "Mahayana ethics, the practice of two truths." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0004/MQ43897.pdf.
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Boon, Andrew. "Legal professionalism : ethics, practice and legal education." Thesis, University of Westminster, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322990.
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Turilli, Matteo. "Ethics and the practice of software design." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711646.
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Beaugard, Carol R. "How hospital nurses reason about ethical dilemmas of practice /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10937985.
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RODRIGUES, RENATA LOPES DE ALMEIDA. "EXPLORATORY PRACTICE IN ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION: REFLECTION AND ETHICS IN PEDAGOGIC PRACTICE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=24050@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
A capacidade de se desenvolver e aprender com o outro e a natureza inacabada do ser humano são fatores motivadores desta tese. Este trabalho investigativo resgata um desejo de entender e refletir sobre questões relativas à construção reflexiva, ética e afetiva do professor de línguas, através do discurso, a partir da experiência e da interação social. Fundamentada pelos princípios da Prática Exploratória, tais como integrar todos no trabalho, trabalhar para o desenvolvimento mútuo, trabalhar para entender e priorizar a qualidade de vida na sala de aula, e pela teoria sócio-histórica-cultural de Vygotsky, portanto, essa pesquisa busca esses entendimentos sobre questões relativas à formação inicial do professor de línguas. É uma pesquisa qualitativa, dentro do paradigma participativo e colaborativo, realizada com professores em formação inicial que participam de um projeto de Iniciação à Docência, em uma universidade estadual, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Construtos da Sociolinguística Interacional, como as noções de enquadre, footing e pistas de contextualização são norteadores da microanálise de dados gerados a partir de gravações dos encontros do grupo em áudio e de relatórios escritos pelos futuros professores. Esses entendimentos apontam para a construção conjunta de saberes e práticas do professor de línguas como parte do desenvolvimento humano, que é construído na interação social com o outro. Os encontros analisados, os relatórios, a sessão reflexiva e pôsteres apresentados pelos alunos-professores mostram a relevância do trabalho reflexivo e cooperativo, mediado pela construção de andaimes emocionais e de conteúdo, para o desenvolvimento mútuo, de alunos-professores e professoras-orientadoras.
The capacity human beings have to develop and learn with others and the unfinished nature of the human being are factors which motivate this thesis. This investigative work rescues a desire to understand and reflect about issues concerning the reflective, ethical and affective construction of the language teacher, through discursive, experiential and social interaction. This research is based on the Principles of Exploratory Practice, such as integrating everybody, work for mutual development, work for understanding and prioritize quality of classroom life, and on Vygotskian socio-historical-cultural theory, thus aiming to enrich understandings of language teacher initial development. It is a qualitative research, within the participatory and collaborative paradigm, conducted with teachers who take part of a project for initial teacher education, in a state university in Rio de Janeiro. Constructs from Interactional Sociolinguistics, such as the notions of frame, footing and contextualization cues are used to analyze the data, which were generated from audio recordings of the group meetings and written reports. These understandings point to the construction of the language teacher identity as part of human development, constructed in the interaction with others. The meetings which were analyzed, the reports, the reflective session and the posters presented by the teacher-learners show the relevance of the reflective and cooperative work, mediated by the construction of emotional and content scaffoldings in order to provide teacher learners and teacher educators mutual development.
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Minnie, Catharina Susanna. "Best practice guidelines for counselling for HIV testing during pregnancy / C.S. Minnie." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/146.
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The 2005 National survey indicates that 30,2 % of South African pregnant women are
HIV positive. The risk of transmission to their infants is about 30% unless prevention
interventions are applied. The Nevirapine regime, safe intraparturn practices and safe
infant feeding methods could limit the risk of mother-tochild transmission to 7%.
Antiretroviral treatment is available to women who can afford it and women who qualify
for subsidised medication. However, HlV positive women and their infants can only
benefit from these strategies when their HIV status is known. Yet only about 50% of
pregnant women consent to HIV testing after counselling. Contextual factors,
organisational circumstances and pregnant women's personal circumstances determine
whether they are tested.
This research aimed to develop best practice guidelines for pretest counselling during
pregnancy. This was achieved through four objectives: exploring and describing the
factors that influence pregnant women's decision to be tested in selected antenatal
clinics in the North West Province, identifying the factors that influence HIV counselling
during pregnancy according to counsellors who practice in these clinics, exploring the
current practices regarding counsellir&! for HIV testing during pregnancy in the selected
clinics, investigating research evidence regarding counselling for HlV testing during
pregnancy by means of systematic review and finally developing best practice guidelines
for counselling for HIV testing during pregnancy.
The research followed specific steps that consisted of two phases. Phase 1 was
subdivided into four steps that related to the first four objectives and compiled evidence
towards formulating best practice guidelines in phase 2. Data-collection methods
included semi-structured interviews, semi-structured observation and a systematic
review.
Phase 1's conclusions were integrated and synthesised as base for developing best
practice guidelines in Phase 2. These guidelines were graded and recommendations for
implementation were formulated. Finally, the research was evaluated, limitations were
identified and recommendations were formulated for nursing practice, education and -
research.Thesis (Ph.D. (Nursing))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.
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Wango, Geoffrey Mbugua. "Policy and practice in guidance and counselling in secondary schools in Kenya." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2006. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/604/.
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This thesis explores the policy and practice of the secondary school guidance and counselling programme in Kenya in the context of the school. The study was conducted in three stages beginning with an initial survey at stage one and case studies at stage two. At the third stage of the study, discussions were held with various stakeholders including a focus group discussion with students. The theoretical framework for the study is based on prismatic society (Riggs, 1964; Harber and Davies, 1997), and Fullan’s (2001) model of educational change, using the person centred counselling approach as the background to counselling. Findings suggest that despite the emphasis on guidance and counselling in schools, the provision of guidance and counselling services is highly variable and somewhat fragmented in scope largely depending on individual schools. The main implication of the study is the need for a more comprehensive guidance and counselling policy in this increasingly important area of education. These relate to the appointment of counsellors, professional issues including a code of conduct for counsellors and the need for a more comprehensive programme that is learner friendly.
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Fritz, Nabillia Jocasta. "Clinical and Counselling Psychology Student Attitudes and Receptiveness towards Evidence-Based Practice." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7962.
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Magister Psychologiae - MPsychEvidence-based practice (EBP) has been internationally recognised as the gold standard for the provision of safe and compassionate health care, and entails integrating clinical expertise with the best available research evidence in order to make effective decisions about the care of patients. The adoption of EBP remains slow, and this has been identified as a significant public health concern as few people with mental disorders in South Africa are treated using evidence-based psychological treatments (EBTs). Proponents of EBP have argued that the most effective way of sustaining the use of EBTs is by adopting EBP as a guiding pedagogical principle in professional psychology training programmes. For such efforts to be successful, it is pertinent to assess the receptiveness of the target population. Attitudes towards EBP remain the top indicator of successful adoption. The current study explored the attitudes and receptiveness towards EBP among clinical and counselling psychology students (N=57) at 11 accredited institutions nationally. Participation in the study was voluntary and the procedure followed all ethical requirements. All data collection occurred online. Participants completed a general questionnaire, the Evidence-Based Practice Attitudes Scale-15 (EBPAS-15) and the Organisational Culture and Readiness for System-wide Integration of Evidence-based Practice (OCRSIEP) Scale All data collection instruments demonstrated sound psychometric properties. A major finding of this study was that clinical and counselling psychology students reported favourable attitudes and receptiveness towards the adoption of EBP. The overall score on the EBPAS-15 indicated that students were likely to adopt EBP, while results on the ORCSIEP overall score indicated that they were receptive towards EBP and were ready to adopt EBP. An exploration of the association between attitudes and receptiveness towards EBP indicated that no correlation exists. Additionally, factors such as age, gender, psychology programme enrolment and preferred therapeutic orientation were not significantly associated with attitudes and receptiveness towards EBP. In conclusion, the results of this study suggest that there is a sound foundation on which to incorporate EBP into the professional training programmes of psychology students.
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Nkansa-Dwamena, Ohemaa. "Reflections on sameness and difference : implications for counselling psychology and professional practice." Thesis, City, University of London, 2010. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/19657/.
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The portfolio explores the concepts of ‘sameness’ and ‘difference’ and their implications for the field of counselling psychology and professional practice. Consisting of an empirical research piece, a case study and a critical review of literature, each section of the portfolio examines the main theme against existing models, participant accounts and the perspective of experts in the various fields. The portfolio begins with a qualitative research study of ten Black British Lesbians and their experiences of negotiating their multiple identities. The second section consists of a case study which explores the role of similarity and dissimilarity in the therapeutic relationship. The portfolio ends with a critical literature review which comprises a consideration of studies of intra-racial discrimination in the Black community.
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Wosket, Valerie Jean. "Developing reflective practitioners : promoting clinical competence through counselling practice, supervision and research." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2000. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525002.
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Kara, Shainoor. "Understanding Therapists' Experiences with Countertransference: A Move Towards Better Training, Supervision, and Practice." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40437.
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Countertransference (CT) is a prominent concept in the counselling literature and is commonly defined as the reactions therapists have to their clients, resulting from their own unresolved conflicts and vulnerabilities (Gelso & Hayes, 2007). According to Friedman and Gelso (2000), while some CT reactions are perceived as positive, they still shift focus to therapists’ concerns rather than those of their clients. This can be perceived as defeating the purpose of therapy. This study revealed therapists’ experiences with CT to help pave a path towards more ethical and client oriented treatment by shedding light on potential changes that can be made to counselling practice and education. Thematic analyses (TA) by Braun and Clarke (2012) was used to analyze data from interviews with four participants. In seeking to understand how CT is conceptualized by therapists, the contexts within which CT reactions occur, and how therapists deal with their CT, five themes emerged from the data. These included: (a) defining characteristics of CT, (b) CT triggers, (c) reactions to CT, (d) methods of dealing with CT, and (e) impact of CT on therapy. Reflection on said themes may inspire counsellors to handle their CT in ways that have proven effective to others and may help them feel less alone in their CT experiences, allowing for more productive response.
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Kerr, Lucy. "Ways in which clinical supervision impacts practice as an experienced counselling psychologist : an interpretative phenomenological analysis." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2014. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/ways-in-which-clinical-supervision-impacts-practice-as-an-experienced-counselling-psychologist(e1eb8145-038c-469c-9a5a-650d11abdbaf).html.
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Clinical supervision is viewed as being an essential and integral part of both trainee and experienced therapists’ development. The cultural shift towards Evidence Based Practice has led to increased practitioner accountability and a requirement to ensure that patients gain access to the best-available mental health care. Supervision is heralded as the vehicle through which best practice can be obtained and, as a result, a strong demand for more research to support supervision practice has emerged. Most of the existing research is based on trainees with very little attention given to the views of more experienced or ‘expert’ practitioners. This study aimed to explore ways in which clinical supervision impacts the practice of experienced Counselling Psychologists by asking seven experienced practitioners (with 7-31 years of post-accreditation experience) to describe how they see their lived experience of supervision as having helped or hindered their practice. Data were collected using open-ended semi-structured interviews and were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Participants’ experiences clustered into three superordinate themes: a) Factors which Help Supervisee; b) Factors which Hinder Supervisee; and c) Impact on Working with Clients. The empirical findings suggest that clinical supervision can have both a helpful and hindering impact on practice and that experience-levels play a significant role in determining the way in which learning in supervision is viewed and experienced, the attitude with which supervision is approached, and the expectations of the supervisory alliance. In particular, these experienced practitioners adopted an open, flexible, curious and sometimes humorous attitude towards learning in supervision, valuing supervisor flexibility and insight whilst deploring supervisor rigidity. Furthermore, these experienced practitioners did not express a need or desire for a mutually strong supervisory alliance in supervision. Rather, the analysis revealed a one-way need to be able to trust and respect the supervisor for his/her insight and expertise. Findings are discussed in relation to existing literature and research. In addition, questions are raised about the positivist approach to knowledge which underpins most supervision research and it is argued that a broader conceptualization of knowledge might serve to expand our understanding of this important phenomenon. Implications for counselling psychology and for further research are explored.
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Koylu, Hilal. "Press Ethics And Practice Of Journalism In Turkey:." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607793/index.pdf.
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This thesis examines the practice of the profession of journalism in Turkey and
whether the fundamental ethical codes and standards of journalism are being honored
in the contemporary market-driven media sector.
While media owners have consistently used the press as an instrument in the
furtherance of their interests, this problem has been aggravated by the recent
concentration in media ownership. The perception of readers as &lsquoconsumers&rsquo
has put a premium on entertainment and sensationalism while jeopardizing basic journalistic values. Forced to practice a type of journalism different to the model which drew them to the profession, many journalists have lost pride in their work along with confidence in the ability of the media to fulfill the public right to information in a democratic society. The thesis begins with an overview of the emergence of the ethical codes and practices of the profession before focusing on the Turkish media and the implementation of the various codes of practice and regulatory procedures which have been developed in Turkey. v The basic issue in media ethics is the morality of those in the sector and the compatibility of journalism and ethics. In order to ascertain if Turkish journalists believe these standards are being maintained, extensive interviews were undertaken with a sample group of a 114 journalists, comprising new and veteran reporters, editors and members of editorial boards. The study confirms that ethical codes and standards are not being followed in the Turkish media because of commercial constraints underlined by increasing concentration in the sector. Keywords: Turkish media, ethics.
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Hunt, Matthew Robert. "Ethics of health care practice in humanitarian crises." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40710.
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Humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters can overwhelm the capacity of local and national agencies to respond to the needs of affected populations. In such cases, international relief organizations are frequently involved in the provision of emergency assistance. Health care professionals play a key role in these interventions. This practice environment is significantly different from the context of health care delivery in the home countries of expatriate health care professionals. Clinicians who travel from a developed nation to a resource-poor setting where a humanitarian crisis has occurred experience a shift of professional, social, cultural and regulatory environments. In this dissertation I examine the ethics of health care practice in humanitarian work. I evaluate the literature of global bioethics, global health ethics and the ethics of humanitarian assistance, and consider the contributions of various ethics frameworks and normative approaches. I also develop a set of questions to guide health care professionals as they address ethically complex issues arising in clinical practice during humanitarian crises. In the empirical component of this research program I use Interpretive Description methodology to examine the moral experience of health care professionals in humanitarian relief work, and clinician experiences of resources and constraints for addressing ethical issues in humanitarian settings. Building upon the inductively derived findings, I argue for strategies and approaches that humanitarian organizations, project teams, and health care professionals can adopt to respond to the ethics of this field of practice. I also provide a critical review of Interpretive Description methodology. The research presented in this dissertation makes an important contribution to the ethical analysis of health care practice in humanitarian work.En contexte d’urgences humanitaires et de sinistres naturels, la capacité des agences locales et nationales à répondre aux besoins des populations affectées est lourdement entravée. Dans ces situations de crise, des organismes internationaux d'aide humanitaire sont souvent impliqués pour offrir leur assistance. Les professionnels des soins de santé jouent un rôle important dans ces interventions. Ces contextes singuliers de pratique pour ces professionnels de la santé expatriés diffèrent beaucoup de l’environnement familier dans lequel ils évoluent dans leur pays d’origine. Les cliniciens qui sont transportés d’un pays développé à des régions dévastées par des crises humanitaires vivent des changements d’environnement professionnel, social, culturel et juridique souvent drastiques. Dans ce projet de thèse, j'examine l'éthique de la pratique en santé dans des zones de crises humanitaires. En premier lieu, j’effectue une recension critique de la littérature consacrée à la bioéthique globale, à l’éthique de la santé globale et à l’éthique humanitaire en vue d’identifier la contribution de certains modèles éthiques et d’approches normatives sur les problèmes qui me préoccupent. Je développe également une série de questions destinée aux professionnels de la santé pour les aider à mieux analyser la nature des enjeux moraux auxquels ils sont confrontés, de même que pour orienter leur processus décisionnel face aux dilemmes rencontrés. Le volet empirique de ce programme de recherche examine l’expérience morale des professionnels des soins de santé en contexte de travail humanitaire, ainsi que les expériences des cliniciens des ressources et des contraintes pour aborder les enjeux moraux en situation de crise humanitaire. Je propose des stratégies et des approches que les organismes humanitaires, les équipes locales d’intervenants, ainsi que les professionnels de la santé peuvent développ
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Lundy, Shaun James. "Professional ethics in occupational health & safety practice." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2013. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13712/.
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This thesis provides a critical evaluation of a real world project involving the researcher as leader of a review and subsequent development of a new Code of Conduct for the world’s largest health and safety body, the Institution of Occupational Safety Health (IOSH, 2011). The health and safety profession in the UK has seen many changes over the last 10-years, in particular a stronger focus on degree education, continual professional development (CPD) and Chartered Practitioner status. In addition to these progressive changes the profession has also seen a rise in the negative media coverage regarding reported risk aversion in decision-making processes. In response to the negative media and at the request of the conservative party, then in opposition, Lord Young led a complete review of health and safety in Great Britain(Young, 2010). More recently, the Government requested a further independent review into health and safety legislation (Löfstedt, 2011). Since the publication of these reports there have been calls for more rigorous competence standards for consultants and a move towards more industry led self-regulation. This has seen IOSH placed in a strong influencing position, albeit with added scrutiny of its own regulation of members. The researcher led a critical review of the existing Code as part of an IOSH standing Committee, the Profession Committee (PC) that has the responsibility among other things for examining allegations of misconduct. The project was conducted as action research and was divided into 4 cycles or stages. Stage 1 involved the critical review and benchmarking of the existing Code against other Codes using an adaptation of the PARN criteria. Stage 2 involved the consultation process for the development of a new Code. This included the researcher’s role as leader of the project and an evaluation of misconduct cases reviewed by the PC. Stage 3 involved semi-structured interviews of practitioners to explore experiential accounts of ethical issues from practice to inform the guidance on the Code. Finally, Stage 4 involved the concluding consultation and consolidation of all the stages for presentation of the revised Code to IOSH Council for approval. The project reinforced the benefits of applying a systematic approach for the development of professional body documentation. It also revealed the value of applying a flexible iterative methodology in the real world environment to prevent the project from diverging from its real world objectives. The outcome of the project has been positively received by IOSH. A new Code was produced with guidance and a revised disciplinary procedure that is fit for purpose and adaptable to change through the use of robust development and broad consultation processes. It is anticipated that these changes will make a significant contribution to the wider profession and practice. An ethical decision making model was developed from the findings and includes a dissemination strategy for the profession.
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Bu, Shaofan. "A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration of Psychotherapists’ Practice of Mindful Acceptance." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31808.
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The aim of this study was to explore psychotherapists‘ practice of mindful acceptance. I employed the hermeneutic phenomenological approach with the intention of creating thick descriptions of how mindful acceptance is performed in therapy sessions with clients by psychotherapists with backgrounds in mindfulness. The findings for this study came from a variety of sources including, pre-interview questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, field notes, and feedback from member checks with participants.
The results pointed to four themes: 1) recognizing, 2) allowing, 3) befriending, and 4) accepting self and others. The participants‘ practice of mindful acceptance was facilitated by various psychological processes including 1) decentering, 2) exposure, 3) emotion regulation, 4) self-acceptance, and 5) compassion.
In their descriptions of mindful acceptance, the participants were able to simultaneously demonstrate acceptance of their internal processes and acceptance of their clients. The participants‘ accounts suggest that intrapersonal and interpersonal processes of acceptance are one and the same and that, in effect, to accept ourselves is to accept others. This study, in a context-specific way, provides accounts of how acceptance of clients can be done. The results of this study have implications for future therapist training and as well as therapist self-care.
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Dabbagh, Sorush H. "Moral reasons : particularism, patterns and practice." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2006. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/52298/.
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This is the study of the extent of the patternability of the reason-giving behaviour of morally relevant features in different ethical contexts. Whether or not the way in which a morally relevant feature contributes to the moral evaluation of different cases is generalis able is examined in this research. I argue in favour of a core and constitutive modest-generalistic theme, according to which there are general patterns of word use, to which the reason-giving behaviour of moral vocabulary in different contexts is answerable. To this end, I reject the constitutive particularistic claim which holds that the way in which a morally relevant feature behaves in different cases is fully context-dependent. An account drawn from Wittgenstein with regard to the nature of concepts which emphasises the key role of the concept 'practice' is presented to give an account of how the reason-giving behaviour of a morally relevant feature in different contexts is answerable to general patterns of word use. Ross's ethics is introduced as an example of the modest-generalistic position. To substantiate this modest-generalistic position, an apparent dilemma is presented for particularists, e.g. Dancy. In order to resolve the second horn of the dilemma, which is an example of a general problem with which any generalistic account is confronted, the account drawn from Wittgenstein with regard to the nature of concepts is again used. Finally, a distinction between the first order and the second order account of the concept 'practice' is presented to give a more plausible account of the concept 'practice' which has an indispensable role in the Wittgensteinian account.
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Hunt, Kathryn Frances. "An exploration of the experience of loss and its relationship to counselling practice." Thesis, Durham University, 2004. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3068/.
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The research approach was qualitative, heuristic (Moustakas, 1990) and ethnographic. I emphasised personal and subjective knowledge as essential components of objectivity (Bridgman, 1950). The interview sample was thought to be experienced in loss. Ethnography was chosen as an approach because it bore a close resemblance to the routine ways in which people make sense of their everyday lives. (Hammersley & Atkinson, 1995)The main question was: What do people do when they experience loss? The results challenge prevailing medical theories in that we notice that grief can be life long and not necessarily pathological. Grief is idiosyncratic in nature. Books about the theory of grief speak to us although we are aware of them as simplistic and yet not simple enough to hold our experience. We search for models of loss in an attempt to plot ourselves in the process. We may feel wise and realise that all along we have held the key to our own difficulties in the process of loss. The agency and wisdom of the mourner is not acknowledged in medical models of grief. By interacting in the world we work at grief, when watching TV, reading a novel, involved in a love affair, friendship, putting a photograph in a frame or wallet, listening to music, talking, having sex, walking, being silent, accepting a caress, visiting a place.... The list is endless. All activity provides opportunity and location for grief work. The definition of grief work could be broader. The findings suggest that each of us has a functional grieving self, which is permanent, contains a cumulative store of pain and is ready when needed. It is located in a timeless dimension of the constantly changing, fluid self, a self that is not just intrapersonal but also located in the interpersonal, physical, spiritual and cultural domain.
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Wheeler, Susan Joy. "Contributions to the development of counselling as a profession : theory, research and practice." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365097.
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Chen, Cara. "The Experience of Workplace Emotional Distress and Practice of Self-care in Novice Counsellors." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39911.
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There is a gap in the literature concerning workplace emotional distress (WED) in novice counsellors. This study explored the lived experience of this phenomenon, as well as common responses used to mitigate it. Three research questions guided this research: (a) what do novice counsellors identify as triggers and predispositions to experiencing emotional distress, (b) what are the perceived consequences of emotional distress on novice counsellors’ clinical work and their work relationships, and (c) what self-care practices do novice counsellors use as protective strategies against emotional distress?
Five themes, each with several subthemes, emerged: (a) experiences and feelings associated with client work, which contained four codes; (b) clinician-specific characteristics contributing to WED, which contained three codes; (c) workplace-specific characteristics contributing to WED, which contained five codes; (d) individual actions taken to combat WED, which contained four codes; and (e) policy and training recommendations, which contained three codes. As counsellor distress may cause harm to clients, findings of this research have implications for (a) enhancing the understanding of professional accountability and concerns for public safety, (b) informing decisions of future policy makers, (c) encouraging valuable help seeking or consultation, and (d) de-stigmatize issues of clinician well-being.
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O'Toole, Emer. "Rights of representation : an ethics of intercultural theatre practice." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2012. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/9ceb1133-bc32-192d-f51c-f4d419ac2107/7/.
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This doctoral thesis proposes an ethics of intercultural theatre, offering a materially engaged framework through which to approach both the problematics and positive potential of intercultural practice. Framing intercultural debates in terms of rights of representation, it suggests that the right to represent Othered people and cultures can be strengthened through 1) involvement of members of all represented cultures, 2) equality and creative agency of all collaborators, 3) advantageousness of a given project to all involved, and 4) positive socio-political effects of a production within its performance contexts. Working through four diverse case studies – Tim Supple's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pan Pan Theatre Company's The Playboy of the Western World, Peter Brook's 11 and 12 and Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle's The Playboy of the Western World – this project uses a Bourdieusian theoretical framework to flag elements of contemporary intercultural practice that strengthen and weaken rights of representation. It recognises that Orientalist and Eurocentric modes of representing Otherness still require address; equally, it points to laudable working practices, moving towards a pragmatics of best intercultural theatre practice.
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Armstrong, Alan Eric. "Towards a strong practice-based virtue ethics for nursing." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1567.
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Illness creates a range of negative emotions in patients including vulnerability, powerlessness and dependence on others for help. The nursing literature is saturated with debate about a 'therapeutic' nurse-patient relationship. However, despite the current agenda regarding patient-centred care, literature concerning the development of good interpersonal responses and the view that a satisfactory nursing ethics should focus on persons and character traits rather than actions, nursing ethics is dominated by the traditional obligation, act-centred theories such as consequentialism and deontology. I critically examine these theories and the role of duty-based notions in both general ethics and nursing practice. Because of well-established flaws, I conclude that obligation-based moral theories are incomplete and inadequate for nursing practice. Instead, the moral virtues and virtue ethics provide a plausible and viable alternative for nursing practice. I develop an account of a virtue-based helping relationship and a virtue-based approach to nursing. The latter is characterized by three features: (1) exercising the moral virtues such as compassion and courage, (2) using judgment and (3) using moral wisdom - moral perception, sensitivity and imagination. Merits and problems of this approach are examined. Following Macintyre, I conceive nursing as a practice; nurses who exercise the virtues and seek the internal goods help to sustain the practice of nursing and thus prevent the marginalization of the virtues. The strong (action-guiding) practice based version of virtue ethics proposed is context-dependent, particularist and relational. Several areas for future philosophical inquiry and empirical nursing research are suggested to develop this account yet further.
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Lim, Jason Kian Yiap. "Ethics and embodiment in racialised, ethnicised and sexualised practice." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407429.
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Tønnensen, Christian. "Ethicising : towards an understanding of ethics as material practice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530080.
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Power, Susann. "An applied ethics analysis of best practice tourism entrepreneurs." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2015. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/807142/.
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Ethical entrepreneurship and by extension wider best practice are noble goals for the future of tourism. However, questions arise which concepts, such as values motivations, actions and challenges underpin these goals. This thesis seeks to answers these questions and in so doing develop an applied ethics analysis for best practice entrepreneurs in tourism. The research is situated in sustainable tourism, which is ethically very complex and has thus far been dominated by the economic, social and environmental triple bottom line thinking. This research takes a different approach by applying a value-behavioural lens to best practice entrepreneurship. In so doing, the focus shifts from impacts and consequences towards those values and actions that determine best practice entrepreneurship. The originality of the research is grounded in a two-pronged research strategy, combining archival research and methods from Personal Construct Theory through the process of iteration. Both strategies are currently underused in tourism research. This constitutes an important methodological contribution. Furthermore, a unique set of archival data in the form of Tourism for Tomorrow Awards applications and judges’ reports enhances the originality of the findings. Archival data was complemented by semi-structured interviews with so-called ethical tourism entrepreneurs. A mix of source and method triangulation has added significant rigour to this research. The key findings are that best practice in tourism is ethically very complex, which suggests a form of ethical pragmatism. Second, a dissonance exists between motivations for best practice, which are value-pluralistic, and ethical judgement making, which is more principle-based. Third, a further dissonance was identified between admittance/awareness and action for issues of misrepresentation, whereas no dissonance was found for relationship or distribution dilemmas. This thesis has combined three strands of research: business ethics, entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism. This original approach lays ground for change towards a more ethically-bound entrepreneurial practice in tourism.
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Tse, Pui Chi. "Counselling supervision in Hong Kong : a qualitative study of the intern experience." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14526/.
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Internship and supervision are prerequisites for professional counselling training and are vital for professional efficacy. However, research of these training functions in the Hong Kong counselling professional context has been limited. This study aims to explore student counsellors’ perceptions and experience of the counselling supervision in their training within a university-based counselling programme in Hong Kong. The research focuses on how far the culture and cultural assumptions affect the learning process when facing success, struggles and difficulties, and what constitutes and hinders an effective supervision environment for student counsellors. Ten counselling psychology undergraduates, who had already gone through a large part of the internship and supervision process, were invited to participate in this research. A qualitative methodology, including the implementation of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and semi-structured interviews, was chosen and participants were asked to describe in detail their perceptions and experiences regarding their counselling internship and supervision. The data were generated through the Verbatim records of interviews and records of observation which included nonverbal behavior and the researcher‘s reflection journals. The interview data were analyzed according to themes and subthemes. Five master themes emerged: Guanxi; Perception; Expectation in relation to the learning environment, Mental processing in the learning and Guanxi strategies. The data were analyzed and reanalyzed. Three considerations, cultural, developmental and contextual, in the internship and supervisory experience are portrayed as implications for stakeholders. The notion of Guanxi and Guanxi strategies appears to be the dominant domain to which greater attention needs to be paid in the process of training, especially in regard to counselling supervision. Designers of academic programmes are encouraged to take into serious consideration the dimension of Guanxi in the training. The idiosyncratic desires of the student counsellors and their expectation in relation to the internship setting and supervision environment as well as the mental processing of student counsellors throughout the learning process are revealed. The results have implications for stakeholders with respect to the knowledge and understanding of the impacts of supervision and internship on professional development in our cultural context.