“…Hope predicts outcomes, such as physical and mental health and academic and athletic success (Snyder, 2002). Children's expressions of hope have been related to their autonomy and their resilience (Mullin, 2019), suggesting that hope plays a role in increasing children's agency, for example, their ability to perceive and change their environment (Aydin & Odaci, 2021). As David Orr reflects, ‘Hope is a verb, with its sleeves rolled up’ (Orr, 2011, p. 324).…”
This paper offers a new child‐centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self‐reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longitudinal, arts‐based, social science‐informed project was delivered by partnering with schools in socially disadvantaged areas of Bristol, a UK city. Our two‐phase activity used a Tree metaphor to explore children's hopes, ambitions and support, looking forward to recovery from the COVID‐19 pandemic. The analysis combined multi‐disciplinary thematic and visual‐narrative analysis, and revealed diversity, intersection and individuality in themes that scaled out from the child and their family over different timescales. Themes included emotion (concerns; empathy), experiences (happenings, resources skills; aspirations) and relationships, linked to their recent experiences of COVID‐19 mitigation. The paper reflects critically on children's and researchers' positionality, and the complexities involved in developing research methods that encourage children's autonomy, agency and authenticity.
“…Hope predicts outcomes, such as physical and mental health and academic and athletic success (Snyder, 2002). Children's expressions of hope have been related to their autonomy and their resilience (Mullin, 2019), suggesting that hope plays a role in increasing children's agency, for example, their ability to perceive and change their environment (Aydin & Odaci, 2021). As David Orr reflects, ‘Hope is a verb, with its sleeves rolled up’ (Orr, 2011, p. 324).…”
This paper offers a new child‐centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self‐reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longitudinal, arts‐based, social science‐informed project was delivered by partnering with schools in socially disadvantaged areas of Bristol, a UK city. Our two‐phase activity used a Tree metaphor to explore children's hopes, ambitions and support, looking forward to recovery from the COVID‐19 pandemic. The analysis combined multi‐disciplinary thematic and visual‐narrative analysis, and revealed diversity, intersection and individuality in themes that scaled out from the child and their family over different timescales. Themes included emotion (concerns; empathy), experiences (happenings, resources skills; aspirations) and relationships, linked to their recent experiences of COVID‐19 mitigation. The paper reflects critically on children's and researchers' positionality, and the complexities involved in developing research methods that encourage children's autonomy, agency and authenticity.
“…Furthermore, studies indicate that counsellor wellness is an indicator of client outcome (Witmer & Young, 1996) and that investment in the wellness of students is needed to reduce the likelihood of counsellor impairment (Roach & Young, 2007). Recently, numerous studies have emphasised the importance of teaching self‐care in counselling programmes (Aydin & Odaci, 2020; Barton, 2019; Butts & Gutierrez, 2018; Christopher & Maris, 2010; Colman et al, 2016; Guler & Ceyhan, 2020). There is a cyclical nature to this point: each counsellor's well‐being may affect their personal relationships and vice versa, which may also have an impact on client work, which may affect a counsellor's well‐being and relationships.…”
BackgroundDespite the urban myth of “the divorce course,” there is little research to support this perception of counselling training programmes. Studies exploring the lived experiences of counsellors in training have referred to relationship changes, but none have made these their primary focus. Research is needed to enhance our understanding of this formative stage for counsellors.AimsThe purpose of this ideographic study is to gain new perspectives on the perceived impact of counselling training on trainees' personal relationships by exploring the lived experiences of five counsellors who completed their training in the last 18 months.MethodThrough a process of volunteer and snowball sampling, qualified counsellors were invited to participate in individual semistructured interviews, which were recorded and transcribed. Due to the small sample size and the emphasis on how each participant made meaning of their own experience, interpretative phenomenological analysis was chosen to interpret the findings.FindingsDetailed analysis and interpretation of the data filtered into two superordinate themes:
permission to change; and
the challenge of integration.
ConclusionThe data revealed that training had a significant multifaceted impact on the personal relationships of all participants. Participants' experience of their training group and of personal therapy was found to be an important factor in this change, as were themes of agency and identity. The majority of ruptures in extant relationships took place early in training. Further research is needed, perhaps into the experiences of loved ones in relationships with student counsellors.
Lack of hope may be important in the development and progression of depression and anxiety. Hope theory holds that hope has two cognitive components, agency thinking and pathways thinking. The aim of this meta-analytic study was to consolidate the results of studies investigating the relationships between agency thinking and pathways thinking with depression and anxiety Results showed that across studies both higher levels of agency and pathways thinking were associated with less depression and less anxiety. The weighted effect sizes for agency thinking were r = -.391 for depression and r = -.259 for anxiety. The weighted effect sizes for pathways thinking were r = -.328 for depression and r = -.206 for anxiety. The effect size for the association of agency thinking with depression was substantially larger than the effect size for the association of pathways thinking for depression. Agency thinking and pathways thinking were both more strongly associated with depression than anxiety. The agency thinking association with depression and anxiety increased in strength with age, while pathways thinking did not. The findings suggest that even though both pathways thinking and agency thinking as aspects of hope play important roles in relation to depression and anxiety, agency thinking may be especially pivotal. Future research can build on these results with experimental designs to generate causal findings and investigate ways to enhance agency thinking and pathways thinking as a means to reduce depression and anxiety.
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