BACP Research - Research Dissertation Database

What is it like for men to experience suicidal feelings and counselling?	VIEW ABSTRACT
Involuntarily childless men: issues surrounding the desire to be a father	VIEW ABSTRACT
A study to explore the perceptions of child and adolescent counsellors of their role in providing emotional support	VIEW ABSTRACT
What Works for Students in Counselling? An Evaluation of Outcome and Change Processes in the University of Stirling Counselling & Wellbeing Service	VIEW ABSTRACT
The views of counsellors and psychotherapists on the issues surrounding statutory regulation	VIEW ABSTRACT
Mind the Gap? Exploring contemporary gay, bisexual and queer male experience and the provision of relevant and appropriate counselling in British University settings.	VIEW ABSTRACT
Backward shadow: The implications of sibling death on perceptions of childhood	VIEW ABSTRACT
Navigating in an uncharted world: how does the desire for fatherhood affect men?	VIEW ABSTRACT
“Tearing our hair out !” - An inquiry into the lived experiences and perspectives of Trichotillomania sufferers who have received counselling or psychotherapy.	VIEW ABSTRACT
Songs at twilight: A narrative exploration of the experience of living with a visual impairment, and the effect this has on identity claims	VIEW ABSTRACT
Developing the understanding of reflective practice in counselling and psychotherapy	VIEW ABSTRACT
A Critical Review of the Impact of Counselling Training Courses on Trainees.	VIEW ABSTRACT
Hear their silent cries - how to give a voice to those who had no choice	VIEW ABSTRACT
Women’s Perception of Counselling following Miscarriage	VIEW ABSTRACT
An exploration of trainee’s experiences of multicultural counsellor-training: a qualitative study	VIEW ABSTRACT
An exploration of the extent to which therapists’ conceptualisations match current academic understandings in a case of male cross-dressing: implications for training and practice	VIEW ABSTRACT
How do Trainee Therapists Experience Un-Notified Client Non-Attendance?	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Role Played by Psychological Risk in the Ethical Practice of the Psychological Therapies	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Development of the Psyche and its Impact on Health with Reference to Neuroscience	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Myth of Madonna: A Phenomenological Exploration of how Women Experience Postnatal Depression	VIEW ABSTRACT
Beyond the medical model: the counselling practitioners’ experiences in primary health care counselling.	VIEW ABSTRACT
A grounded theory study of organisational supervision of counsellors: The influence of the invisible client	VIEW ABSTRACT
An Investigation Exploring the Potential Challenges and Opportunities that surround the Development of Online Counselling Services for Young People in the United Kingdom.	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Therapeutic Alliance in Online Youth Counselling	VIEW ABSTRACT
Online Counselling: a heuristic study examining the relational depth of computer-mediated relationships.	VIEW ABSTRACT
Containing grief: Ambiguities and dilemmas in the emotional work of UK childhood bereavement services	VIEW ABSTRACT
Looking beyond the obvious – a story of crossing borders and connecting with sameness	VIEW ABSTRACT
A descriptive phenomenological study on therapists’ experience of personal therapy	VIEW ABSTRACT
Dysphoria, anxiety and the ability to decode others’ emotional states in university students	VIEW ABSTRACT
What are the impacts of Deaf Culture and British Sign Language on the therapeutic relationship from the therapist’s perspective?	VIEW ABSTRACT
A comparison between groupwork and one to one counselling as agents of change in the bereavement process – therapists’ views	VIEW ABSTRACT
Conversion therapy versus gay-affirmative therapy: Working with ego-dissonant gay clients	VIEW ABSTRACT
Psychological experiences of renal transplant patients: improving understanding and counselling interventions	VIEW ABSTRACT
Community approaches to working with asylum seeking women	VIEW ABSTRACT
Researching the core model; a qualitative study of the usefulness of a core model to counsellors in practice	VIEW ABSTRACT
The fourth wave in workplace counselling: towards the understanding and the development of the professional specialisation of workplace counselling	VIEW ABSTRACT
Workplace Counselling –a new, knowledge-based, formally regulated specialism?	VIEW ABSTRACT
Religious and Spiritual Experience amongst Psychotherapists in Ireland	VIEW ABSTRACT
Searching for the magic crystal: an inquiry into the praxis of integration	VIEW ABSTRACT
Depression before and after childbirth - An evaluation of a perinatal counselling service.	VIEW ABSTRACT
Lydia’s story: a supervisee’s search for supervisor competence and client progress	VIEW ABSTRACT
Mirrors and Echoes: Meaning-Moments in Counselling Supervision	VIEW ABSTRACT
An Auto-Ethnobiographical Exploration of War and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	VIEW ABSTRACT
A qualitative exploration of how clinicians attend to interracial/intercultural mixing in their clinical practice	VIEW ABSTRACT
Changing Times and Evolving Cultures	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Role of Dreams in the Study of Human Transformation	VIEW ABSTRACT
Suicide: A dying shame. A literature review of the therapeutic relationship	VIEW ABSTRACT
The impact of cultural migration on the psychosocial perceptions of stress amongst South Asians in the UK	VIEW ABSTRACT
Towards a Pagan/magickal approach to counselling?	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Mysterious Journey - An exploration of how Counsellors integrate their counselling and spiritual identities and how this affects their interaction with clients whose spiritual identity differs from their own.	VIEW ABSTRACT
Recovery from child sexual abuse trauma within an arts therapies programme for women	VIEW ABSTRACT
Christian Counsellors and Homosexuality	VIEW ABSTRACT
Dissociative Identity Disorder. Issues for Counselling	VIEW ABSTRACT
Christian counsellors' views on working with gay and lesbian clients: integrating religious beliefs with counselling ethics	VIEW ABSTRACT
Do I feel able to counsel another person in a Person Centred way?	VIEW ABSTRACT
Exploring the need for a counselling service in a Primary school	VIEW ABSTRACT
Are Existential and Cognitive-Behavioural Approaches to Anxiety mutually exclusive?	VIEW ABSTRACT
'Out of Season': A study of the experience of premature menopause on women in their twenties and thirties	VIEW ABSTRACT
Researching the core model; a qualitative study of the usefulness of a core model to counsellors in practice.	VIEW ABSTRACT
Private Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy	VIEW ABSTRACT
A counsellor’s perspective on the meaning and value of counsellor disclosure within the therapeutic relationship defined by the Clarkson framework	VIEW ABSTRACT
"New Perspectives" An exploration in to how people come to terms with grief resulting from parental rejection or non-acceptance.	VIEW ABSTRACT
Spirituality and Culture in Counselling andPsychotherapy: Practitioners' perspectives	VIEW ABSTRACT
Evaluation of two school-based interventions for children with emotional/behavioural problems.	VIEW ABSTRACT
'Perceptions of Workplace Stress, Home Care and Cultural Context - the Piecing Together of a Puzzle'	VIEW ABSTRACT
The expectation has always been that I’ll not have kids” – the narratives of childless gay men	VIEW ABSTRACT
Assessing Suicide Risk in Counselling: Training Counsellors to Integrate Suicide Risk Assessment into the Therapeutic Discourse	VIEW ABSTRACT
Christian Counselling: An inherent Conflict?	VIEW ABSTRACT
Defending Against Experiencing: An exploration of the threat to the essential passion and professionalism of academia	VIEW ABSTRACT
‘"I can just imagine someone calling me Daddy" – exploring the narratives of men without children’	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Primary Care Counsellor and Risk Assessment: How Safe is our Practice?	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Body of Anger - An exploration of using mind body and spiritual approaches in helping clients understand and process their anger	VIEW ABSTRACT
‘How do Primary Care Counsellors, who have previously practised as nurses in the NHS, reconcile the differences in attitudes and cultures with their new professional role within the Primary Care team?’	VIEW ABSTRACT
Perceptions of working with spontaneous metaphors in counselling	VIEW ABSTRACT
What relevance and impact does ‘the other characteristic’ have to, and on the therapeutic process?	VIEW ABSTRACT
‘A Voice Denied: Clients’ Experience of the Exclusion of Spirituality In Counselling and Psychotherapy’	VIEW ABSTRACT
The hatred that dare not speak in its name: The effects of Homophobia on the mental health of lesbian, gay and bisexual people	VIEW ABSTRACT
Counselling as a treatment for people who stammer: What some individuals have found to be helpful and what they feel could have been done differently.	VIEW ABSTRACT
'Gay Men's Experiences of Therapy'	VIEW ABSTRACT
Being both a Client and a Researcher: An Autoethnographical Exploration	VIEW ABSTRACT
"Counselling and the Spiritual Quest: an exploration of the spiritual dimension in the journey of self-discovery and the therapeutic relationship"	VIEW ABSTRACT
A Revealing of Some Human Being’s Subjective Experience Of Hindsight: Is Hindsight Really A Wonderful Thing?	VIEW ABSTRACT
An exploration of the experience of embodiment and its relationship to counselling practice	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Child of Survivors: A literature study of the child of survivors compared with the Jewish child in recent and contemporary history	VIEW ABSTRACT
"Dissociation in a Student Sample in the Philippines"	VIEW ABSTRACT
Clients’ experiences of how perceived differences in social class between counsellor and client affect the therapeutic relationship	VIEW ABSTRACT
A Long, Hard Road to Go By: a study of the support work carried out in Women's Aid refuges	VIEW ABSTRACT
Getting on the Bike: An Enquiry into the Felt Sense	VIEW ABSTRACT
Effective Threesomes? A Critique of Four Models of Couple Counselling	VIEW ABSTRACT
Therapeutic help for troubled same sex relationships	VIEW ABSTRACT
The sacred and the psyche in psychological context	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Training, Support and Supervision Experience of Volunteer Counsellors	VIEW ABSTRACT
Understanding the Relationship between the White Child and Black Nanny in South Africa-using John Bowlby's Attachment Theory.	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Phenomenon of Choice: What is the experience of choice in relationship to self and others?	VIEW ABSTRACT
The nature of the therapeutic relationship within online counselling	VIEW ABSTRACT
"Attitudes towards computerised cognitive behaviour therapy self-help for depression amongst a student population"	VIEW ABSTRACT
An Exploratory Study of Prison Officers Perceptions of their Relationships with Offenders in St Patrick's Institution, Dublin	VIEW ABSTRACT
Traveller’s tales: Journeying with some counsellors who found themselves exploring their own personal development as they explored a new form of psycho-educational therapy	VIEW ABSTRACT
Defending Against Experiencing: An exploration of the threat to the essential passion and professionalism of academia. An exploration of the resistance to pastoral care and counselling observed in the evangelical churches in Scotland with particular refer	VIEW ABSTRACT
Enduring relationships: the evolution of long-lasting marriages	VIEW ABSTRACT
Lupus Patients Understanding & Support: the unmet needs of patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	VIEW ABSTRACT
An enquiry into the role of the University counselling service: Towards a collaborative model of institutional support	VIEW ABSTRACT
An exploration of the use ethnic minority students make of college counselling services	VIEW ABSTRACT
A consideration of the replication of maternal processes in psychoanalysis through their evocation in the countertransference	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Fear of the Feminine; its Effect on Men and on Psychotherapy	VIEW ABSTRACT
Changed by the encounter: The learning and change that counsellors and psychotherapists experience as a result of their work with clients	VIEW ABSTRACT
"What’s in a name?" A narrative inquiry into the relationship between addiction and identity	VIEW ABSTRACT
Trauma, therapy and conflict: Posttraumatic stress and the process of peacemaking following the 1991-1995 war in Croatia, explored through the work of Adam Curle	VIEW ABSTRACT
Short term psychodynamic psychotherapy: An analysis of the key principles	VIEW ABSTRACT
Where angels fear to tread - An exploration of the experience of having conversations about suicide within a counselling context	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Clinical Effectiveness of the Person Centred Psychotherapies: A preliminary inquiry including literature review, CORE-OM questionnaires, client session recordings and client feedback	VIEW ABSTRACT
Explorations of counsellors' experiences in the use of touch as a therapeutic intervention	VIEW ABSTRACT
Stress and M.E.: a study to consider to what extent stress may be a factor in chronic illness, with particular reference to M.E., and the role of counselling in aiding recovery	VIEW ABSTRACT
What makes a mother: The Social Construction of Motherhood	VIEW ABSTRACT
Women abortion and counselling – doctors as gatekeepers to services	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Social Model of Disability & Counselling for Disabled People	VIEW ABSTRACT
Does the provision of counselling positively impact on absenteeism in the	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Impact of Clients’ Experiences of the Childcare System and its effect on subsequent Counselling and Psychotherapy	VIEW ABSTRACT
Counselling supervisors’ attitudes to counsellor self-disclosure	VIEW ABSTRACT
The professionalisation of counselling: a work in progress	VIEW ABSTRACT
The Bereaved in Search of 'Healing': An Exploration of the Experiences of Bereavement Counselling.	VIEW ABSTRACT
'Grasping Anger by the Tale'	VIEW ABSTRACT
A study into the effects of the counsellors’ public role and their non-therapeutic working and social relationships.	VIEW ABSTRACT
Mothers in Therapy: Their Styles, Perceptions and Beliefs of Parenting	VIEW ABSTRACT
A study of HIV counselling and support	VIEW ABSTRACT
Psychological woundedness and motivation to study as a therapist: An empirical investigation.	VIEW ABSTRACT
Impact on counsellors of listening to an audio-recording of their latest supervision session	VIEW ABSTRACT
Understanding the nature of empathy: A personal perspective	VIEW ABSTRACT
A Study of a Person Centred Counsellor Training Programme	VIEW ABSTRACT
Companion Animal Loss	VIEW ABSTRACT
Provision of psychotherapeutic counselling in the voluntary sector: a case-study	VIEW ABSTRACT
An Exploration of the Experience of Loss and its Relationship to Counselling Practice	VIEW ABSTRACT