<i>Influences that count</i>: professional development of psychotherapists and counsellors in India

Kumaria, Shveta; Bhola, Poornima; Orlinsky, David E.

doi:10.1080/21507686.2017.1416416

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“…exposure therapy (Lindner et al , 2020). This research gap is disadvantageous as professional development enables counsellors to fine tune, expand and acquire new skills and knowledge (Kumaria et al , 2018), something this lack of research presently limits their ability to do. However, the success gamification has seen across many contexts implies the present research into a gamified tool for trainee counsellors could constitute a meaningful contribution (Sochor et al , 2021).…”

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“Development and evaluation of perspective: counselling simulator”: a gamified tool for developing risk-assessment skills in trainee counsellors

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Patel

Gavin

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Purpose Self-efficacy is the bridge between theoretical knowledge of counselling and practical application of effective techniques (Akinlolu and Chukwudi, 2019). Furthermore, risk-assessment and management are fundamental components of counselling training and self-efficacy in these areas is central to ethical practice. Gamification represents an opportunity to increase motivation encouraging users to engage with serious content via an entertaining medium. This study aims to present two studies concerning an outline of the development process and an initial evaluation of “Perspective: Counselling Simulator”, a gamified training tool for developing and enhancing self-efficacy in risk-assessment skills in trainee counselling students in the UK. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents the development and initial user-evaluation of “Perspective”, as well as an initial evaluation of the game’s capacity to deliver risk-assessment education in a group of UK-based trainee counsellors to British Association for Counselling and Psychology (BACP) standards. Findings Firstly, mid-development assessment of a prototype-version of the game produced a good system usability score and positive user-feedback, while identifying areas for further improvement. Secondly, data relating to an initial evaluation of the efficacy of the game suggest that the game in its current form is significantly improved in terms of system usability and produces descriptive, albeit not statistically significant improvements to self-reported self-efficacy. Additional feedback was provided by users and further development and evaluation is planned. Originality/Value This paper represents, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the first of its kind in developing and evaluating a gamified tool with accessibility and scalability for teaching and consolidating risk-assessment skills of UK counselling students in-line with BACP standards.

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“Development and evaluation of perspective: counselling simulator”: a gamified tool for developing risk-assessment skills in trainee counsellors

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“…Some research indicated that teaching systematic assessment skills can increase therapists' cognitive complexity (Duys and Hedstrom, 2000;Little et al, 2005). Results of other research studies indicate that professional experience in psychotherapy, reading scientific papers, therapists' personal life experience and case discussions have the most positive impact on development of psychotherapists' professional competence (Kumaria et al, 2018). We aimed to explore whether the structure of professionals' thinking, especially integrative complexity, is influenced by lifelong learning and education.…”

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Lifelong learning and the structure of professionals' thinking, on the example of case conceptualisation

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2020

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the elements of psychotherapists’ informal education and features of concept maps reflecting the properties of thinking structure. Design/methodology/approach To study the structure of professional thinking, a complex diagnostic task (computer-aided conceptual mapping task) was used. The diagnostic task consisted of categorising the client’s statements, presenting relations between the categories and concept maps accounting for problems reported by the client and contributing factors and links between them. Findings The obtained results showed that self-education, through participation in scientific conferences and attending training courses, was significantly associated with the number of perceived causal relationships between categories and the number of perceived reciprocal links between conceptual categories. Originality/value This research show factors which may contribute to more reliable case conceptualisation in psychotherapy. The method used to measure integrative complexity was original.

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A Path of Opportunity and Challenge: Perspectives of Psychotherapy Supervisors in India

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Influences that count: professional development of psychotherapists and counsellors in India

Cited by 8 publications

References 44 publications

“Development and evaluation of perspective: counselling simulator”: a gamified tool for developing risk-assessment skills in trainee counsellors

“Development and evaluation of perspective: counselling simulator”: a gamified tool for developing risk-assessment skills in trainee counsellors

Lifelong learning and the structure of professionals' thinking, on the example of case conceptualisation

A Path of Opportunity and Challenge: Perspectives of Psychotherapy Supervisors in India

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