You can attend Day 1 in person only.

 All bookings include access to the online content on-demand, including additional on-demand only recordings.

 

Programme

 

Time

Strand 1

Sky Gallery

16th floor

In person only

Strand 2

Garrard suite

15th floor

In person only

Strand 3

Blumfield suite

15th floor

In person only

Strand 4

Armstrong suite

15th floor

In person only

09.00 to 09.30am Registration and refreshments
09.30 to 09.45am

Welcomes: Natalie Bailey (BACP Chair), Clare Symons (BACP Head of Research), Jackie Dunne (Vice Chancellor, Birmingham Newman University)

09.45 to 10.45am Keynote Discussion: Niamh Brownlee, Simon Mason, Rameri Moukam, Jeremy Bacon & Preet Kaur Gill, MP. Facilitator Lynne Gabriel (BACP President)
Shaping policy and politics with lived experience
10.45 to 11.15am Refreshments, poster and exhibition viewing
11.15 to 11.45am
Discussion
Lucy Button & Jay McCarthy
An Autoethnographically Derived Theoretical Model of Autistic Self-Actualization.
Research Paper
Beth Stillings Cohen
Therapists' perspectives on working with clients taking antidepressants - a qualitative study.
Workshop
Amanda McGarry
Analysing suicide notes: conducting stanza and narrative analysis within counselling research.
Symposium
Richard Doyle, Rinda Haake, Andrea Williams,
Emma Tickle & Sue Price
Lived Experiences of the Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy Scale.
11.50am to 12.20pm
Discussion
Michael Kentish
Is there a place for humour in the therapy room?
Research Paper
Anna Kennedy
Meanings and standards in the mother identity: An interdisciplinary approach to understand identity and emotions.
12.25 to 12.55pm
Research Paper
Peter Blundell & Madeline Hall
It’s like Jenga: A collaborative autoethnography study, into facilitators’ experiences of a person-centred community of practice, focused on critical thinking skills for counselling and psychotherapy students.
Research Paper
Miriam Tasgal
Mothers Who Listen WIth More Than Ears - The Phenomenological Experience of The Non-verbal Communication Between Mothers and their Child with Complex Cerebral Palsy.

Research Paper
Belinda Ford
The lived experience of Relate supervisors of providing supervison. 

 

 

1.00 to 2.00pm Lunch
2.00 to 2.45pm Keynote presentation: Mhairi Thurston
Vision for change: Improving client services within the sight loss sector through lived experience, research, dialogue and collaboration.

2.50 to 3.20pm

Discussion
Banjo Aromolaran & Elizabeth Wilson
Going Beyond the Tick-box: A new approach to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion training for Mental Health Professionals.

Research paper
Stuart Gilmour, Sarah Law, Rebecca Lynn & Blue Reeves
Exploring 18-25-year-old cis male’s attitudes to psychotherapy, what this means to them and how this might inform the psychotherapeutic profession.
Workshop
Claire Plews & Siouxsie Bytheway
Creative methodologies workshop - Embracing the visual as well as the verbal in research.
Discussion
Kate Diggory & Lois de Cruz
A duoethnographic study of how two women over 60 make meaning of a methodology and of life.

3.25 to 3.55pm

Discussion
Susan Hughes & Steve Mulligan
Devolution of health policy in the UK: what are the implications for counselling and psychotherapy?
3.55 to 4.10pm Refreshments, poster and exhibition viewing
4.10 to 4.40pm

 

Discussion
Magdalen Cheng
Voicing the censored self: A hermeneutic phenomenological exploration of navigating silence and authenticity in South-East Asia.

Discussion
Alison Woodward & Agata Wezyk
Self-care and Wellbeing: understanding counsellor perceptions by using creative research methodologies.

 

Research Paper
Urszula Plust, Shefali Golchha & Jen Holland
“What the hell just happened?!’ Therapists’ lived experiences of unlocking creative experiencing –
collaborative autoethnography

 

Workshop
Nicola Blunden & Mhairi Thurston
How to co-produce research ethically.

4.45 to 5.15pm

Research Paper
David Tate
The development of the Cognitive Behavioural Social Competence Therapeutic Intervention for Adults
with Autism: A mixed methods report.

5.20 to 5.35pm

Lightning Talk
Amanda McGarry
Conducting a co-operative inquiry in the field of counselling research: critical reflections and learnings from a ‘first time’ inquirer.

Lightning Talk
Simon Wharne
Understanding vicarious trauma and vicarious growth; a new paradigm in therapeutic practice.

Lightning Talk
John Fen Raju
Revisioning the Person-Centred approach from the
lens of the Caste system of the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora.

Lightning Talk
Cara Robin
Between Opaque and Open: Gestalt Practitioners' utilisation of self-disclosure.

5.35 to 6.45pm

Break

6.45 to 7.30pm

Drinks reception, Awards presentations and Poster presentations: Sky Loft

7.30 to 9.00pm

Conference Dinner: Garrard/Blumfield suites (pre-booked delegates only)

This programme is subject to change and may be amended up to and including the event day. Please use this information as a guide for the research presentations available at the conference.