Synergies Between Personal and Professional Lives of Counsellors

Vummidi, Sinduja; Limaye, Sandhya

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0584-8_4

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“…Supervision helps therapists regulate their personal and professional lives, and helps them to have clear boundaries around when therapy ends and their personal lives begin. Vummidi and Limaye (2016), in a study carried out in Chennai, India, found that supervision was useful for novice professionals to integrate and contextualise their learning. It allowed them to be more self-reflective in their practice and more present in sessions.…”

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Novice therapist, the client and therapy: Integrating the triad

Bhandari

Sriram

2022

Couns and Psychother Res

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Therapy process research focuses on understanding how therapy is conducted by professionals in the field. It is a nascent field of psychotherapy enquiry in India. This paper explores how novice therapists in India perceive their clients, and how this influences the process of therapy. In depth interviews were conducted with ten novice therapists, with less than six years of practice experience, from Mumbai, India. The data was thematically analysed. The data revealed that therapists' perceptions of their clients were defined by socio‐demographic features of age and gender, along with presenting complaints and personal attributes. Participants had defined beliefs about good clients as contrasted with difficult ones. Distinct preferences for particular client types were identified. The antecedents to these beliefs were attributed to the therapist's worldview, their training and the supervision received. These views, and the conceptualisation of the client, influenced the choice of client, the process of therapy and how they proceeded with sessions, and their methods of referral. The data from the study has implications for therapist training, supervision and further research.

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Section: Supervision For Novice Therapistsmentioning

confidence: 99%