Therapists' personal therapy and professional self-awareness.

MacDevitt, John W.

doi:10.1037/h0085769

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“…The research literature on personal therapy may be divided into four types of studies (Macran & Shapiro, 1998): surveys of therapist satisfaction with personal therapy (e.g., Orlinsky et al, 1999;Pope & Tabachnik, 1994); outcome studies, comparing therapeutic outcomes for therapists who have or have not received personal therapy (Sandell et al, 2006; for a review, see Macran & Shapiro, 1998); experimental outcome studies, examining therapist responses to analogue psychotherapeutic situations (e.g., McDevitt, 1987;Strupp, 1955Strupp, , 1973; and process studies, looking at within-session client-therapist interactions (e.g., Wogan & Norcross, 1985;Wheeler, 1991).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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“Not a little Mickey Mouse thing”: How experienced counselling psychologists describe the significance of personal therapy in clinical practice and training. Some results from an interpretative phenomenological analysis

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2008

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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The British Psychological Society's Division of Counselling Psychology currently specifies a mandatory period of personal therapy for trainees. However, evidence for the role of personal therapy in developing practitioner competence is sparse. This paper presents part of a wider ongoing interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring how counselling psychologists describe the meaning and significance of personal therapy in clinical practice and training. Detailed examination of a subset of data from this study suggests that personal therapy is valued as a vehicle for a genuine, often extremely intense relationship with the therapist, through which participants become able to establish authentic emotional contact with themselves and their clients. Whilst most participants felt that personal therapy should remain an obligatory part of the training curriculum, they were ambivalent about specifying its aims or evaluating its outcomes. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of establishing a sense of integrity and authenticity within the personal therapy experience and are tentatively situated within a possible theoretical framework drawing on current developmental literature.

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“Not a little Mickey Mouse thing”: How experienced counselling psychologists describe the significance of personal therapy in clinical practice and training. Some results from an interpretative phenomenological analysis

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2008

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“…In light of the inconclusive evidence for the relationship between personal therapy and client outcomes, researchers taking a process perspective have examined the effects of personal therapy on in-therapy process, such as empathy (Strupp, 1958), genuineness (Peebles, 1980), and awareness of countertransference issues (MacDevitt, 1987).…”

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confidence: 99%

Personal therapy for Israeli school counselors: Prevalence, parameters, and professional difficulties and burnout

Wiseman

Egozi

2006

Psychotherapy Research

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This article examines the prevalence and parameters of personal therapy for Israeli school counselors and its role in their professional work and well-being. Counselors working in schools were surveyed with the Development of Psychotherapists Common Core Questionnaire, which was adapted for the Israeli school counseling context. Eighty percent viewed personal therapy as desirable, and 34% had received or were currently receiving personal therapy; its use was related to counselor ethnicity and years of experience. Personal problems were cited as the most common reason for entering therapy, and the majority of counselors reported positive benefit. Counselors who had personal therapy reported fewer professional difficulties and less burnout than those who had not, and their satisfaction with their professional identity varied as a function of seniority. It is suggested that the impact of personal therapy on professional work and development needs to be studied for various psychotherapy and counseling providers in different settings and contexts.

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“…17 Two other studies found personal therapy associated with more concern for the therapeutic relationship and greater awareness of countertransference. 18,19 The sparest sector of this research literature comprises studies that examine the relationship of personal therapy experience to patient outcomes. Review articles have come to similar conclusions regarding both the paucity of studies and the recurrent methodological flaws, such as poor design, inadequate or vague process and outcome measures, and small sample size.…”

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The Role of Personal Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Becoming a Competent Psychiatrist

Brenner¹

2006

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

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Education (ACGME) has launched a competency movement that is causing a paradigm shift in psychiatric training. Psychiatry, like all medical specialties, is expected to attest to the specific competencies of its graduates. 1 In particular, the Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry (RRC) has defined the need for competency in several of the psychotherapies, 2 thereby generating, in turn, much discussion about how to develop this set of skills. The American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) has provided specific guidelines for competency in each type of psychotherapy, including, most controversially, psychodynamic psychotherapy. 3 These guidelines state that the competent resident will "demonstrate understanding of the concept of the unconscious" and also of "the multiple and complex meanings" underlying behavior. Toward this end, the resident should be able to establish an alliance with the patient that allows for "an inquiry into the patient's inner life." Finally, the AADPRT guidelines specify that the resident should be able to recognize, utilize, and manage aspects of transference and countertransference, and to "utilize selfreflection to learn about his/her own responses to patients."One of the difficulties of attaining such competence in psychodynamic psychotherapy is that physicians-in- Correspondence: Adam M. Brenner, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals, 221 Longwood Ave., Mezzanine level,

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Therapists' personal therapy and professional self-awareness.

Cited by 41 publications

References 38 publications

“Not a little Mickey Mouse thing”: How experienced counselling psychologists describe the significance of personal therapy in clinical practice and training. Some results from an interpretative phenomenological analysis

“Not a little Mickey Mouse thing”: How experienced counselling psychologists describe the significance of personal therapy in clinical practice and training. Some results from an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Personal therapy for Israeli school counselors: Prevalence, parameters, and professional difficulties and burnout

The Role of Personal Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Becoming a Competent Psychiatrist

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