Learning Resources

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

• Dimensions of culture
• 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
• Open Dialogue Therapy
• 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