Learning Resources
Further content will be added to the OLC over the course of the coming months, please check back here for updates.
Using research to inform practice
A guide to reading research on the client’s experience of therapy
Evaluating the outcomes of therapy: tools and practical implications
Measuring the therapy relationship
Methods for investigating the process of therapy
Nature and prevalence of harmful therapy
Research on professional knowledge
The process of therapy
Barriers to therapeutic learning and change
Being open to new experience: a core therapeutic change process
Intensity, resoluteness, and courage: key aspects of the healing process
It can be helpful for clients to listen to recordings of their therapy sessions
Looking at the big picture: the stages of change model
Sources of ideas for therapy activities and interventions
Strategies for working with clients with complex difficulties
Supporting clients to re-examine their moral choices
The covert dimension of therapy process: what is not being said
The process of assimilating a problematic experience
The process of change as hard work
Therapist self-disclosure: when the therapist’s life-story becomes a resource
Using metaphors to deepen the therapeutic process
When therapy gets stuck: the process of resolving an impasse
Writing to clients
Socio-political, cultural and historical aspects of practice
Healing practices in different cultures
Further historical perspectives
Key figures in the development of psychoanalysis: Jung, Adler and Winnicott
Professional and ethical issues
Boundary management as a form of ethics work
Conducting therapy with a prominent member of a remote rural community
Core elements of therapy training
Designing therapy services
Ethical dilemmas arising from the Tarasoff Case
Ethical dilemmas around physical contact Issues and challenges associated with obtaining comprehensive and authentic informed consent
The clinic as a place of safety
The effectiveness of lay, untrained, or paraprofessional therapists
The financial relationship between client and therapist
The idea of personal power
The significance of place: organisational hospitality and the therapy room
The significance of time: how many sessions?
The therapy room as a healing space
Who can be a therapist? How much training is necessary?
Who is the client: individuals, couples, families, communities?
Approaches to therapy
Collaborative Therapy
Constructivist Therapy
Examples of theoretical integration
Multi-dimensional relationship models
Solution-focused therapy
The Radical Theatre Tradition
Conceptual issues in therapy
Philosophical perspectives on psychotherapeutic practice
Using concepts and theories to inform and support therapy practice
