Divine Charura

York St John University · School of Psychology

Objectives Psychotherapeutic integration has been a source of contentious debate and increasing authorship for over five decades. Yet, the challenge remains as to how practitioners learn to integrate their practice according to the philosophical, theoretical and practical procedures of their chosen modalities. Pedagogically, there is also a challen...

The Therapists as Research-informed Practitioners (TRP) is a research group aiming to enhance research training for counsellors, psychotherapists, and counselling psychologists. It provides learning and professional development events, supporting research and best-practice developments, and making policy recommendations to promote effective and sus...

Research supervisors are uniquely positioned to recognise student abilities and needs. This mixed methods study explores how research supervision can support counselling, psychotherapy and counselling psychology doctoral students in their development of new knowledge, with diversity related opportunities and challenges in mind. Guided by 'dialectic...

Background: People with Parkinson's (PwP) can experience both physical and psychological symptoms, and understanding the perspectives of people affected is crucial for improved management, and clinical outcomes. Objectives: This online survey sought to investigate whether individuals perceive a connection between physical and psychological symptoms...

Introduction A record of 122.6 million people have sought refuge and asylum across the globe in 2024, exacerbated by emergencies in Ukraine, Sudan, Afghanistan and by the Israel–Hamas war. This number is set to rise to over 130 million people in refugee situations in 59 countries this year alone. With refugees suffering from higher rates of mental...

This Position Paper aims to provide a global perspective on Counselling Psychology for the purpose of education and creating a unifying voice. The Position Paper begins with a brief introduction, stating its unique purpose and value. It presents the history of Counselling Psychology, investigating its roots and the emergence of the tension between...

Flow states are heightened moments of concentration, motivation and enjoyment, leading to total absorption in the present moment. A striking parallel exists between flow states and phenomenological accounts of autistic daily life. We analyse the components of flow theory alongside autistic autobiographical accounts to explore similarities and diffe...

The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is the largest professional membership body within the field of counselling and psychological therapies in the UK, but there is a mismatch between its membership of >65,000 and its research impact. This article sets out a potential strategic direction as considered by an informal grou...

Objective: The novel concept of “the trauma therapists” journey’ during their work with formerly tortured refugees and asylum seekers is introduced, mapped, and explicated for a convenience sample of 10 psychological therapists/practitioners who work in the United Kingdom. Method: This study operationalized semistructured interviews that were focus...

Introduction Using a duoethnological approach, supported by relational trauma theories, this paper synthesises idiosyncratic formulations and perspectives of working with relational trauma. Aim Initially, focus is centred on reflecting on the authors' research with different and diverse groups. These include in‐reach rehabilitation and recovery se...

This chapter offers a critical exploration of the importance of encountering therapeutic and reparative relationships when working through psychological trauma. We draw from two key research studies conducted with 15 service users from a United Kingdom (UK) mental health rehabilitation and recovery service and 12 asylum-seekers and refugees based i...

Aims This systematic review and meta‐regression aimed to examine available literature reporting measures of physical function, anxiety, and/or depression and whether any relationships exist between these measures in individuals with Parkinson's disease. Methods MEDLINE, CINAHL, AMED, and APA PsychInfo databases were systematically searched. Screen...

Despite the growing evidence that the modern world is more diverse and so is the nature of relationships that present in therapy, there remains paucity of empirical evidence on how cultural differences impact those in intercultural romantic ties. We conducted this comprehensive scoping review with the aim to outline the size and scope of existing r...

This study provides an innovative, compassionate and culturally informed method for psychotherapy research, using object elicitation with 13 participants from vulnerable groups. It examines the positive impact it has on building the research alliance, enhanced depth of sharing within qualitative research interviews and emic ways of knowing through...

We are three psychotherapists, also trainers at different universities in the United Kingdom, who came together to explore the application of duoethnography as a research method in the context of counselling and psychotherapy. The focus of our dialogues was on privilege and power as experienced between client and therapist in the therapeutic relati...

We argue in this paper that counselling psychologists have been championing human rights and social justice in different ways and since the Division was first being considered. We draw on counselling psychology historical literature, and from responses from our colleagues within the profession. As part of our preparation for this paper we put out a...

There is an increased emphasis on research in the field of counselling and psychotherapy. Previous studies suggest however a strained relationship between psychotherapy research and psychotherapy practice, with therapists often mentioned at the margins of the research community. The TRP group has developed in response to this critique, focusing o...

The objective of this study was to capture therapists’ experiences of delivering therapy throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic and how this experience impacted therapeutic alliance. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted on the responses to three surveys distributed to all UKCP members. The qualitative and quantitative analyses found signi...

This textbook aims to support counsellors, psychotherapists, and counselling psychologists to develop a creative research-informed practice. Following from the authors' earlier title Enjoying Research, the book covers qualitative, quantitative, pluralistic, and mixed methods approaches with a special focus on diversity, researcher support and innov...

This chapter pursues the aim of ‘artful’ research with a specific focus on arts-based, decolonising research methods. What are objects, things, art? How do they shift power, and how are these issues relevant to counselling and psychotherapy research and practice? What are the dilemmas that we may we face in doing arts-based decolonising research? T...

Using a duoethnological approach, supported by Jung's theory of archetypes and the layered objective psyche, the paper demonstrates how a duoethnological encounter can lead to new formulations of archetypal theory that challenge attitudes to diversity. The paper arises from the authors' desire to explore the shame and pain of colonialism, initially...

Introduction: Individuals seeking refuge and asylum commonly present to health care practitioners with embodiment of mental distress resulting from the traumatic nature of their migration experiences. The number of displaced individuals has doubled over the past decade due to the impacts of war, religious and political conflict, climate change, and...

The research reported in this article analysed letters written by a cohort of psychotherapy and counselling students, in response to an anti-racism letter by Professor George Yancy entitled ‘Dear White America’. Fifteen responses were written by students who don’t experience racism, with one written by a student who does experience racism. A themat...

Objectives: Uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine continues to be lower in ethnically diverse communities in the UK even though they are disproportionally affected by the negative effects of the virus. To better understand why uptake is lower, we explored factors that may underpin vaccine hesitancy and intention to vaccinate in these communities with an...

Background and aims Self-mutilation (self-harm) is a phenomenon that is increasingly being seen in patients presenting in mental health services in the United Kingdom. This present study aimed to explore the lived experience of South Asian women raised in the United Kingdom and their perspective of ‘Izzat’, which refers to honour. Method Semi-stru...

This article explores the prospect of delivering counselling to people affected by dementia from the perspective of persons responsible for delivering an integrated dementia support service, emphasising an underpinning relational approach. Findings originate from interviews with an experienced counsellor, the counselling service co-ordinator, and p...

Counselling and other psychotherapeutic interventions can be offered to people with dementia and their caregivers, to treat specific conditions or symptoms (e.g. affective disorders such as depression). Psychotherapeutic interventions also offer the opportunity for individuals with dementia and their families/caregivers to engage in psychological s...

Despite the available literature on facilitative conditions noted in numerous writings on encounter groups, cofacilitators’ experiences are substantially under-researched. This present study aimed to explore psychotherapists’ experiences co- 10 facilitating encounter groups with two or more co-facilitators. A subsidiary question was: How do therapi...

The experiences of a group of 12 asylum seekers and refugees based in the United Kingdom were investigated using interpretative phenomenological analysis to examine the nature of the trauma experienced by the participants, including the possibility of resilience and posttraumatic growth. Participants undertook a 2-stage interview process—an introdu...

The foundations of this humanistic approach to counseling and psychotherapy were laid down in the 1940s by Carl Rogers in the United States. While this approach has seen the evolution of names ascribed to it (e.g., nondirective counseling, Client-Centered Therapy [CCT], Person-Centered Therapy [PCT], etc.), the essential guiding philosophy has been...

Chapter Summary. In this chapter we will begin to: explore the defi nition and context of dual diagnosis; observe the prevalence and correlation of mental health & substance use; understand the social

In the UK it is estimated that a third of patients in mental health services have a substance abuse problem, and that half of patients in drug and alcohol services have a mental health problem. Part of Palgrave's Foundations of Mental Health series, this book explores the intertwined issues of substance use and mental health as a social phenomenon...

In the UK it is estimated that a third of patients in mental health services have a substance abuse problem, and that half of patients in drug and alcohol services have a mental health problem. Part of Palgrave's Foundations of Mental Health series, this book explores the intertwined issues of substance use and mental health as a social phenomenon...