Summary
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Many counselling courses have a strong research element built into the modules and students are expected to gain a thorough understanding of research issues early on in their studies. This accessible and practical textbook will demystify research and make it relevant to counselling practice. There are sections on linking clinical practice to research, developing ‘curiosity’ and engaging with the data. The book uses clinical practice as a basis for understanding research, and makes connections between the activity of therapy and the research process.
Practitioner Research: A Therapist's Perspective
Practitioner Research: A Therapist's Perspective
Core Knowledge
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
- analyse links between the evolving practitioner and the emerging researcher;
- evaluate how internalised values and beliefs are experienced, challenged and changed through personal development and clinical practice;
- appraise how practitioners engage with research to develop personal professional ‘selves’.
In this chapter we aim to facilitate an understanding of the links between the evolving practitioner and the emerging researcher. This discussion is framed within the notion that practitioner-researchers (and therefore research) continue to be influenced by internalised values and beliefs, which are recurrently challenged and changed through exposure to clinical practice, theoretical concepts, ethical frameworks and ...
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