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Practitioners’ experiences of learning and implementing Counselling for Depression (CfD) in routine practice settings (2017)
Journal Article
Drewitt, L., Pybis, J., Murphy, D., & Barkham, M. (in press). Practitioners’ experiences of learning and implementing Counselling for Depression (CfD) in routine practice settings. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12148

Aim: Counselling for Depression (CfD) is a person-centred experiential therapy developed for implementation in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme. Training in this model has been available across England since 2011. This... Read More about Practitioners’ experiences of learning and implementing Counselling for Depression (CfD) in routine practice settings.

A theory on reports of constructive (real) and illusory posttraumatic growth (2017)
Journal Article
Boerner, M., Joseph, S., & Murphy, D. (in press). A theory on reports of constructive (real) and illusory posttraumatic growth. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167817719597

It has been suggested that self-reported posttraumatic growth could sometimes be considered as a way for people to protect themselves from the distress of trauma. In this case, reports of posttraumatic growth could be illusory. We suggest a theory on... Read More about A theory on reports of constructive (real) and illusory posttraumatic growth.

The association between sense of humour and trauma-related mental health outcomes: two exploratory studies (2017)
Journal Article
Boerner, M., Joseph, S., & Murphy, D. (in press). The association between sense of humour and trauma-related mental health outcomes: two exploratory studies. Journal of Loss and Trauma, https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2017.1310504

Two studies (n = 73, n = 132) explored the association between sense of humour and trauma related well-being outcomes. It was found that sense of humour was not associated with reports of posttraumatic growth as measured by the Posttraumatic Growth I... Read More about The association between sense of humour and trauma-related mental health outcomes: two exploratory studies.

Unconditional Positive Self-Regard, Intrinsic Aspirations, and Authenticity: Pathways to Psychological Well-Being (2017)
Journal Article
Murphy, D., Joseph, S., Demetriou, E., & Karimi Mofrad, P. (2020). Unconditional Positive Self-Regard, Intrinsic Aspirations, and Authenticity: Pathways to Psychological Well-Being. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 60(2), 258-279. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167816688314

Unconditional positive self-regard (UPSR) is regarded by humanistic psychologists as an important determinant of well-being. However, until recently it has received little empirical attention. The current study aims to examine the association between... Read More about Unconditional Positive Self-Regard, Intrinsic Aspirations, and Authenticity: Pathways to Psychological Well-Being.

Related but not replaceable: a response to Warner’s reworking of person-centered personality theory (2016)
Journal Article
Hook, L., & Murphy, D. (2016). Related but not replaceable: a response to Warner’s reworking of person-centered personality theory. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 15(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2016.1219674

Whether conditions of worth theory can explain complex forms of human psychological distress, such as those emanating from early experiences of abuse, neglect and trauma, alongside experiences of physiological events later in life is open to debate.... Read More about Related but not replaceable: a response to Warner’s reworking of person-centered personality theory.

A cross-sectional study to explore the mediating effect of intrinsic aspiration on the association between unconditional positive self-regard and posttraumatic growth (2015)
Journal Article
Murphy, D., Demetriou, E., & Joseph, S. (in press). A cross-sectional study to explore the mediating effect of intrinsic aspiration on the association between unconditional positive self-regard and posttraumatic growth. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2015.1051238

Person-centered psychotherapy is based on the growth paradigm of psychological distress. Person-centered therapy is, therefore, ideally placed to facilitate posttraumatic growth. There were two aims of this study. The first was to explore the associa... Read More about A cross-sectional study to explore the mediating effect of intrinsic aspiration on the association between unconditional positive self-regard and posttraumatic growth.

A practice research study concerning homeless service user involvement with a programme of social support work delivered in a specialized psychological trauma service (2015)
Journal Article
Archard, P., & Murphy, D. (2015). A practice research study concerning homeless service user involvement with a programme of social support work delivered in a specialized psychological trauma service. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 22(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12229

Homeless people are a population known to be highly vulnerable to trauma, in triggering events to becoming homeless and the considerable social isolation, discrimination, and adversity suffered when homeless. Currently, there is a paucity of research... Read More about A practice research study concerning homeless service user involvement with a programme of social support work delivered in a specialized psychological trauma service.

On becoming a counselor: challenges and opportunities to support interpersonal skills training (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Slovak, P., Thieme, A., Murphy, D., Tennent, P., Olivier, P., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2015). On becoming a counselor: challenges and opportunities to support interpersonal skills training.

Well-developed interpersonal skills are crucial for all social interactions. However, understanding how interpersonal skills are taught or learned, and how technology can play a part in this, is yet an under-researched area in CSCW and HCI research.... Read More about On becoming a counselor: challenges and opportunities to support interpersonal skills training.

A journey to client and therapist mutuality in person-centered psychotherapy: a case study (2014)
Journal Article
Tickle, E., & Murphy, D. (2014). A journey to client and therapist mutuality in person-centered psychotherapy: a case study. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2014.927390

This aim of this case study was to build theory on the development of client–therapist mutuality in person-centered psychotherapy. A case study focusing on a 42-year-old female client who had presented for therapy following trauma within interpersona... Read More about A journey to client and therapist mutuality in person-centered psychotherapy: a case study.

Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions (2014)
Journal Article
Murphy, D., & Cramer, D. (2014). Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions. Psychotherapy Research, 24(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2013.874051

Abstract Objective: Research on the effects of Rogers’s therapeutic relationship conditions has typically focused on the unilateral provision of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence from therapist to client. Method: This study look... Read More about Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions.