What Can Clients Tell Us about Seeking Counselling and Their Experience of It?

Manthei, Robert J.

doi:10.1007/s10447-005-8490-3

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“…First, H:1 People with PGD who view recruitment videos or receive an invitation from a trusted clinician will have a larger effect size from the ART intervention. Consistent with work on other types of therapeutic approaches, clients with no expectations about the intervention can be informed by a video or clinician, and in‐depth information about the intervention can enhance expectations (Field et al., 2017; Manthei, 2005). Second, H:2 People with PGD who score higher on optimism will have a larger effect size from the ART intervention.…”

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Exploring the role of expectancy in older US participants’ response to an accelerated resolution therapy intervention for prolonged grief disorder

Buck

Benitez

Mason

et al. 2022

Health Social Care Comm

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Accelerated resolution therapy (ART) is a psychotherapy for the treatment of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) defined as severe, enduring longing for the lost person. Currently, ART lacks examination of intrapersonal processes, like expectancy, as behavioural mechanisms for action. Therefore, the purpose of this paper was to present the findings on participants’ treatment expectations of ART for PGD and then discuss potential hypotheses for future testing. This study was a primary qualitative descriptive analysis of prospectively collected interview data (collected 2017–2019) accrued as part of a randomised, wait‐list controlled clinical trial in bereaved hospice family caregivers in the United States. The sample included 29 former informal caregivers who were at least 1‐year post death of their care recipient. They were primarily female, older (67.4 ± 7.1 years), and a little over half (n = 18) had been married to their care recipient. Thematic analysis resulted in three distinct themes with six sub‐themes: The role of knowledge in expectations (sub‐themes uncertainty, prior knowledge); The role of personality in expectations (sub‐themes openness, positive affect); and Expecting a process (sub‐themes cognitive processes, affective processes) which described the interaction of person and process in shaping expectations of our intervention. An across theme analysis of the specificity of the participants’ expectations uncovered that knowledge and personality inform expectations of ART and that individuals who verbalise a process for recovery tend to be very specific in their expectations. Three hypotheses for testing are put forward and implications for practice, research and policy discussed.

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Exploring the role of expectancy in older US participants’ response to an accelerated resolution therapy intervention for prolonged grief disorder

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Benitez

Mason

et al. 2022

Health Social Care Comm

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“…This was an unexpected finding as the participants in our study had already had counselling where they had discussed AEs. Manthei (2005) contends that individuals seeking counselling simply go to a counsellor or counselling agency that has been recommended to them. However, the participants in this study appeared to spend a bit of time searching for the best counsellor or service for them as they feared that they would not have the opportunity to discuss their AEs.…”

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“…As such, we believe that there is a need to investigate the experiences and perceived needs of clients who have reported AEs in the therapeutic setting by interviewing a sample of clients who report such phenomena in counselling services in the UK. Furthermore, Manthei (2005) points out that counselling research in general has tended to neglect the client's perspective in favour of the counsellor's, so we intend to fill a much-needed gap in the literature. We aim to explore the thoughts, feelings and experiences of clients in terms of the supportseeking process, how counsellors reacted to clients disclosing an AE (did clients feel accepted, listened to, understood?)…”

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‘Most people think you're a fruit loop’: Clients’ experiences of seeking support for anomalous experiences

Roxburgh

Evenden

2016

Couns and Psychother Res

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ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of clients who report anomalous experiences (AEs) in counselling services, so we are better informed about how therapists have responded to such clients. AEs are defined as those that ‘depart from our own familiar personal experiences or from the more usual, ordinary, and expected experiences of a given culture and time’ (Braud, , p. 107).DesignA qualitative approach was taken involving semi‐structured interviews, and an inductive thematic analysis was conducted on transcripts.MethodSemi‐structured face‐to‐face interviews were conducted with eight clients who had discussed at least one anomalous experience in counselling.ResultsFour themes were derived from participants’ data which were labelled using short participant extracts: ‘Why are you looking at that airy fairy crap?’, ‘It was like banging your head against a brick wall’, ‘It kind of shut the door’, and ‘Having someone to normalise and say you're not crazy, you're not weird’.ConclusionsFindings highlight the importance for clients of finding an open‐minded and informed counsellor, so they can explore the meaning of the anomalous experience without being ridiculed or pathologised. Implications for both clients and counsellors are discussed in terms of the accessibility of counselling services to meet the needs of diverse clients and the growing field of clinical parapsychology.

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“…The purpose of these interviews was to explore service users’ experiences of the service. As relatively little counselling research has focused on the client experience of counselling (Manthei, 2005), this element of the study provides a valuable additional layer of evidence that is absent from many service evaluations. It also helps to further fill the gap in the literature relating to the emotional impact of sight loss, which, as Thurston et al (2010) point out, is dominated by quantitative studies.…”

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Exploring the role of an emotional support and counselling service for people with visual impairments

Hodge

Barr

Bowen

et al. 2013

British Journal of Visual Impairment

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There is growing evidence of the need for services to address the emotional support needs of people with visual impairments. This paper presents findings from a mixed methods evaluation of an emotional support and counselling (ESaC) service delivered within an integrated low vision service, focusing primarily on the qualitative findings. Data collected using a standardised measure of psychological well-being (the CORE-OM) show an improvement in the psychological well-being of clients of the service between baseline and follow-up assessment. Qualitative findings from interviews with service users and service providers help to illustrate and explain the experiences underlying the quantitative findings. The ESaC services are shown to be helpful to service users in two particular ways: helping them to normalise their experiences by talking to an impartial listener; and helping them to accept and adapt to the physical, emotional and social changes in their lives resulting from their visual impairment.

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What Can Clients Tell Us about Seeking Counselling and Their Experience of It?

Cited by 10 publications

References 77 publications

Exploring the role of expectancy in older US participants’ response to an accelerated resolution therapy intervention for prolonged grief disorder

Exploring the role of expectancy in older US participants’ response to an accelerated resolution therapy intervention for prolonged grief disorder

‘Most people think you're a fruit loop’: Clients’ experiences of seeking support for anomalous experiences

Exploring the role of an emotional support and counselling service for people with visual impairments

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