Client feedback in counselling

In response to this impact, we can see attempts within the therapeutic community to provide support. Critical realism accepts the principle of an objective reality independent of our knowledge. The survey introductory page stated that all responses would be treated in confidence.

Bentall at the University of Sheffield issued a psychological survey of 2, people using standardised measures of mental health. Our approach in this study essentially rejects these dichotomous ontological and epistemological positions and, instead, favours an alignment with the fundamental assumptions underlying critical realism.

A majority of therapists felt challenged by remote working, with reduced interpersonal cues, feelings of isolation and fatigue, and technical issues frequently cited concerns.

Whether remote working was likely to become core work for therapists after the pandemic has passed. Critical realism can be viewed as being positioned somewhere between positivism and interpretivism. Not all UK psychotherapists are UKCP members; some will be registered with BACP and other bodies.

Offene und ehrliche rückmeldungen helfen mir zu verstehen, was in unserer therapeutischen beziehung gut funktioniert. From a research perspective, a key element of critical realism has been neatly captured by Danermark, Ekström, Jakobsen, and Karlsson with these words, there exists both an external world independently of human consciousness, and at the same time a dimension which includes our socially determined knowledge about reality.

The impact of the virus is obvious. Ich höre aufmerksam auf die erfahrungen und gefühle, die klienten teilen, um meine unterstützung besser anzupassen. Whether remote working skills should be formally taught in the context of therapy training programmes.

While both approaches shed unique light on a particular research topic, we suggest that methodologically pluralistic researchers would be able to approach their interests in such a way as to reveal new insights that neither method nor approach could reveal alone.

SAMPLING METHOD A purposive sampling method was employed to identify potential survey respondents, with the social media platforms Facebook and LinkedIn being utilised as the primary social media sources. Depression and anxiety peaked in connection with the lockdown announcement.

Manchmal offenbaren klienten durch ihr feedback aspekte, an die ich selbst vielleicht noch nicht gedacht habe. The survey focused on a number of key issues, which included: Types of remote working being used by therapists. Es ist mir wichtig, dass sich klienten ermutigt fühlen, ihre gedanken und wahrnehmungen ohne angst auszudrücken.

From an epistemological stance, quantitative approaches have been associated with positivism, which holds that reality is objective and can become known through empirical observation. The authors also used their existing academic networks to identify suitable survey participants.

Table 1 Number of years as a practising therapist Years as a therapist. Das feedback unserer klienten ist ein unschätzbar wertvoller wegweiser für meine arbeit als berater. Letztendlich dient all dieses feedback dazu, den bestmöglichen therapeutischen prozess für den klienten zu gestalten.

Critical realism has been regarded as a philosophical position, which would promote both quantitative and qualitative approaches as being important and relevant within research e. At the same time, most therapists considered that remote working had been effective and that clients were comfortable with the process.

The perceived effectiveness of remote working. Ich sehe klientenfeedback nicht als kritik, sondern als chance für gemeinsames wachstum. The challenges of remote working. Brown refers to early research Bentall, and practical support and discusses the experience with practitioners in detail.

An online survey completed by psychotherapists produced both quantitative and qualitative data with the latter being subject to a reflexive thematic analysis. A link to the data privacy policy of the company that hosted the online survey was provided.

Selbst kleine hinweise können oft große auswirkungen auf den verlauf der sitzungen haben. In contrast, qualitative approaches have been associated with interpretivism. So, in terms of gender breakdown, the sample in the current survey appears well aligned with the wider practitioner body.

Received May 11; Revised May 17; Accepted May It can be used for unrestricted research re-use and analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source, for the duration of the public health emergency. The advantages of remote working with clients.

Bao, Sun, Meng, Shi, and Lu refer to Chinese learnings and findings, for instance with regard to attempts by the Chinese Government to improve public awareness about mental health. The great majority of therapists thought that remote working skills should be part of formal therapy trainings.

Ich schätze jede bemühung eines klienten, mir seine ehrliche meinung mitzuteilen. A growing number of studies are using social media to identify participant samples in psychotherapy research e. Respondents were asked how long they had been a practising therapist in years ; there were four different intervals shown in the survey, and the distribution of responses is shown in Table 1.

Die perspektive des klienten ist letztendlich entscheidend dafür, wie wirksam die beratung ist. Drawing on the latest published number of UKCP clinical registrants 8, 1 might serve to illustrate how we can be confident that the survey findings can be generalised.

Client types—whether they were new, existing or both. An interpretivist stance assumes that reality is fluid and subjective, and that reality can only be observed as approximations or estimates. Originally formulated by Bhaskar , , critical realism is an alternative philosophical position to the classic positivist and interpretivist paradigms and, to some extent, offers a unifying view of reality and the acquisition of knowledge.

From an ontological perspective, quantitative methods have been associated with realism, which holds that there is an objective reality independent of our cognitions and perceptions. Diese rückmeldungen ermöglichen es mir, meine beratungsmethoden kontinuierlich zu verfeinern und zu verbessern.

Das gefühl, gehört und verstanden zu werden, stärkt das vertrauen zwischen uns enorm.