DAVID MURPHY david.murphy@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Psychology and Education
Identifying and developing therapeutic principles for trauma?focused work in person?centred and emotion?focused therapies
Murphy, David; Elliott, Robert; Carrick, Lorna
Authors
Robert Elliott
Lorna Carrick
Abstract
The aim of this research was to identify facilitative therapeutic principles in person-centred and emotion-focused therapy for working with traumatised clients in the early stages of therapy. Four cases were selected from the Strathclyde Experiential Therapy for Social Anxiety archive: one good and one poor outcome case from each therapeutic approach. Outcomes were considered good and poor based on quantitative outcome measures. Each case met DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for both PTSD and social anxiety. We developed a new method for the identification of therapeutic principles that offers an alternative to current approaches to competency identification. Our method uses a qualitative, bottom-up inductive process analysis. The first three sessions from each case were transcribed and independently analysed by two researchers (one blinded to the outcomes); the third researcher acted as consultant. The transcripts were analysed by focusing on session episode structure and treatment principles. Four trauma-focused therapist principles were identified: 1) Support early relationship building/alliance formation; 2) Facilitate client identification and recognition of past events as trauma experiences; 3) Facilitate work on traumatic sources of current experiential and interpersonal difficulties; 4) Offer self-agency focused empathy. We conclude that our approach identifies and provides a new method for establishing person-centred-experiential therapy principles for early trauma-focused work. Further research is recommended, and limitations are discussed.
Citation
Murphy, D., Elliott, R., & Carrick, L. (2019). Identifying and developing therapeutic principles for trauma?focused work in person?centred and emotion?focused therapies. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 19(4), 497-507. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12235
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 4, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 11, 2019 |
Publication Date | Dec 1, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Apr 5, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 5, 2019 |
Journal | Counselling and Psychotherapy Research |
Print ISSN | 1473-3145 |
Electronic ISSN | 1746-1405 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 19 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 497-507 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12235 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1753200 |
Publisher URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/capr.12235 |
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