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Children and young people
Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the provision of school-based counselling in the UK
Research paper
Charlie Duncan presents her research which aimed to assess:
- the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the provision of school-based counselling
- the effect of various factors on school-based counselling
- how potential actions should be prioritised to mitigate negative impacts of the restrictions.
School-based counselling in the UK: Findings from the ETHOS Trial
Symposia
The symposium papers supplement Professor Mick Cooper鈥檚 keynote presentation of the key findings from the first adequately powered effectiveness and cost-effectiveness trial of school-based humanistic counselling (SBHC) for psychological distress in adolescents.
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Symposium paper 1
Helpful and unhelpful aspects of school-based humanistic counselling (SBHC) compared to pastoral care as usual (PCAU): Thematic analysis using data from the experience of service questionnaire
Helen Raynham discusses the need for further rigorous research into the factors impacting whether young people find school-based counselling helpful,听to help ensure that young people鈥檚 needs are at the forefront of counselling service development and delivery.
Symposium paper 2
Relational predictors of change in school-based humanistic counselling for psychological distress
It's a well established fact that the quality of the therapeutic relationship is a strong predictor of therapeutic outcomes in adults. There's also a strong body of evidence suggesting it also applies to children and young people. David Saxon presents research that aimed to test whether the identified relational factors are associated with outcomes, and to compare this association against the alliance鈥搊utcome association.
Symposium paper 3
Client goals and goal attainment in school-based counselling
Charlie Duncan explores how pilot research has indicated that school-based humanistic counselling (SBHC) supports young people to meet their personal goals, although this is yet to be determined in the context of a fully powered randomised controlled trial (RCT). Furthermore, whilst pilot research suggests that there is no relationship between goal type and rate of attainment, to date this has only been explored in under-powered studies. The present study aims to address these limitations in the literature.
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Short-term psychotherapies for depressed adolescents: looking at different perspectives on treatment process and outcomes
Symposia
These symposium papers aim to provide further insight into process and outcome research in youth psychotherapy. It includes four research projects examining different aspects of research in psychotherapy for adolescent depression.
Guilherme Fiorini introduces the Symposium presentations.
Symposium paper 1
Trajectories of change in general psychopathology levels among depressed adolescents in short-term psychotherapy
Guilherme Fiorini investigates the different trajectories of change in general psychopathology (p) and specific symptom domains among depressed adolescents who received short-term psychotherapy.
Symposium paper 2
The impact of pre-treatment self-criticism and dependency on the treatment outcome of psychotherapy for adolescent depression
Research in psychotherapy for adolescent depression implies that there is a need to identify
predictors of treatment response. Yushi Bai explores whether depressed adolescents鈥� pre-treatment personality vulnerabilities of self-criticism and dependency influence treatment outcomes across gender in short-term psychotherapies.
Symposium paper 3
The alliance鈥搊utcome association in the treatment of adolescent depression
A growing body of research has consistently demonstrated a relationship between
therapeutic alliance and treatment outcomes in youth psychotherapy. Antonella Cirasola explores the effect between alliance and outcome by examining the associations between early alliance and subsequent outcome while controlling for patients鈥� baseline severity and prior symptom change.
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Symposium paper 4
Therapeutic settings and beyond: a task analysis of re-establishing epistemic trust in psychotherapy
Epistemic trust is defined as one鈥檚 willingness to receive new information as trustworthy and relevant. A lack of epistemic trust may link to the emergence and persistence of general psychopathology. Elizabeth Li presents research that explores how epistemic mistrust (e.g., hypervigilance, petrification) comes about, whether epistemic trust can be (re-)established through psychotherapy, and which therapy approaches can be most effective in responding to epistemic mistrust to help establish trust.
Conclusion
Guilherme Fiorini concludes the Symposium presentations.
Students
Establishment of a Practice Research Network (PRN) for Student Counselling Services (SCSs) in Ireland: a collaborative effort
Discussion paper
In 2018, the Higher Education Authority (Ireland) funded the 3SET project on student support services. One of the aims of the project was to establish a PRN while developing a national database for SCSs in Higher Education Institutes (HEIs). Currently, the team are in the process of finalising the database build and hope that it guides future developments through collaboration between academics and practitioners.听
Join Zahra Tayer Farahani to discuss:
- strategies that can be used to facilitate collaboration between stakeholders
- how to handle inconsistencies between different
- how can practitioners and academics be encourages to join the PRN鈥�
Outcomes from university counselling: lessons from UK services within the SCORE consortium
Research paper
Emma Broglia presents her research which aimed to provide the first step towards developing a national dataset of student counselling outcomes drawn from differing outcome measures, platforms and reporting on all clients.
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Is evidence-base enough to save us?
Discussion paper
There are rising concerns about students鈥� increasing need and use of mental health services and counselling. In spite of initiatives to enhance student support, such as the Student Mind Charter (2), there is an appetite for doing more with less in universities and a risk that provision of counselling becomes so limited as to become meaningless.
Geraldine Dufour opens the floor to ask researcher and practitioner colleagues:
- is evidence-based research enough to help
save counselling services? - how can we strengthen what we learn through research to make the message more impactful and influence strategy and commissioning?
- can practitioners work with and听engage in research?
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Dual-factor intervention pilot for perfectionistic undergraduates: combining CBT and positive psychology principles
Research paper
Rates of multi-dimensional perfectionism are rising in UK university students (Curran & Hill, 2017). Lucy Cooper shares her research aimed at exploring this increase.
She discusses how the increase in perfectionism could explain the potential rising prevalence of mental ill health amongst students due to the vulnerability of perfectionists to experience anxiety and negative affect (Hewitt & Flett, 1991; Enns et al., 2001).
An Interpretative Phenomenological analysis of a pilot resilience programme in educational support for first year mental health degree students
Research paper
Tara Fox and Valerie Fletcher share their research which aimed to explore the experience of University students who have engaged voluntarily in a 12-week resilience training programme during their first year of study.
Effectiveness of providing a mindfulness-based intervention to increase resilience to stress in university students: one-year follow-up results from a randomised controlled trial
Research paper
G茅raldine Dufour and Julieta Galante present the findings of their study which focussed on the effects of mindfulness training on distress and use of mental health services up to a year after starting the trial, along with cost- effectiveness data.
Diversity
'Fat person walks into the therapist鈥檚 office鈥欌��. Therapist attitudes and client experiences in psychotherapy with people of size
Research paper
Michelle Oldale explores the findings from two separate studies. The first study looked at the experience of clients of size in relational therapy. The second examined attitudes of therapists towards their higher weight clients and the notion of weight stigma.听
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Older people
Uptake and outcomes for older people - analysis of community-based counselling services' data
Research paper
Older people are less likely to recognise, or take action to address, symptoms of common mental health problems. Those who do consult their GP about symptoms of depression are more likely to be prescribed antidepressants and less likely to be offered choice of talking therapies.
Jeremy Bacon and Jenny O鈥橠onnell share their findings of their study which analysed all-adult data submitted by six community-based counselling service providers from across the UK giving a snapshot of the age profile and outcomes of clients by age.
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