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Introduction
In collaboration with Dr. Thomas Skovholt, the edited book Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Master Therapist Studies From Around the World was released by Oxford University Press. The book contains 7 qualitative studies on expert therapists from the USA, Canada, Portugal, Czech Republic, Singapore, Korea, and Japan. The final chapter is a qualitative meta-analysis of these 7 studies. We conclude by presenting a synthesis model of therapist expertise.
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Cognitive, emotional, and relational characteristics among 10 peer-nominated master therapists were identified through qualitative research methods. Results suggest that master therapists (a) are voracious learners; (b) draw heavily on accumulated experiences; (c) value cognitive complexity and ambiguity; (d) are emotionally receptive; (e) are ment...
The expertise literature within cognitive science has provided a rich series of ideas which can be used to improve applied practice. The authors of the articles in this special issue have taken many of these ideas and made useful elaborations and extensions. In reaction to the articles, we suggest five blocks to a full utilization of the expertise...
Personal characteristics, developmental influences, and therapy practices of nine peer-nominated expert psychotherapists practicing in the diverse country of Singapore were identified using qualitative methods. Sixteen themes were organized within four categories: (a) personal characteristics (empathic, nonjudgmental, respectful); (b) developmental...
Expertise in counseling and therapy is both desirable and elusive. Increasing our knowledge about expertise in counseling and therapy enhances understanding of the role it plays in our profession. This understanding has the potential to improve the training of counselors and therapists. Yet expertise in counseling and therapy appears to be a multif...
The field of counseling psychology continues to see a perpetual
underutilization of mental health resources by many cultural groups,
including international populations. Underutilization of services is due, in
part, to psychologists’ deficiency in cultural and international competency.
International education—an experiential learning technique that...
Although emerging research indicates that yoga facilitates healing from interpersonal trauma, consensus is lacking as to yoga's main facilitative factors. To address this limitation, we employed qualitative meta-analysis to analyze data from six qualitative studies (n = 105) that examined the healing agents of yoga that facilitated recovery from in...
Responding to calls for international psychotherapy research, a qualitative meta-analysis (QMA) exploring the essential qualities of master therapists from a global perspective was conducted on seven master therapist studies from the United States, Canada, Czech Republic, Portugal, Singapore, Japan, and Korea. Based on the analysis of 111 themes, w...
Research suggests that characteristics and attitudes of the therapist may be a significant contributor to psychotherapy outcome. Researchers using both quantitative and qualitative methods have explored the characteristics of expert practitioners. This chapter provides an overview of the literature on therapist variables and master therapists, desc...
Existing research suggests that although many master therapists’ characteristics are interculturally valid, at least some of these characteristics are culturally bound. Interviews with nine peer-nominated Czech expert psychotherapists were subjected to thematic analysis which revealed 16 themes, organized into six more general categories: (a) Humbl...
Personal characteristics, developmental influences, and therapy practices of nine peer-nominated expert psychotherapists practicing in the diverse country of Singapore were identified using qualitative methods. Sixteen themes were organized within four categories: (1) personal characteristics (empathic, nonjudgmental, and respectful), (2) developme...
Trauma is ubiquitous in our society; therefore, it is important to explore how individuals cultivate healing after traumatic experiences. Yoga may be one avenue to cultivate healing. Qualitative methods were employed to study the role yoga practice played in the healing process of those who experienced interpersonal trauma. Eleven interpersonal tra...
The study of expertise has a long and textured history, and it continues to be an active area of research among researchers and practitioners interested in human performance, giftedness, and achievement. In this chapter, Skovholt, Hanson, Jennings and Grier examine the broad and complicated topic of expertise.
This chapter presents a study in which the authors employed Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) methods (Hill, Thompson, & Williams,1997) to reanalyze interview data from a previous qualitative study of the personal characteristics of master therapists (Jennings & Skovholt, 1999). The purpose of the study was to better understand the ethical valu...
In chapter two, Skovholt, Hanson, Jennings, and Grier summarize the literature on the prevailing view of expertise in therapy and counseling. The authors explore whether it is possible to achieve expertise in such an “ill-structured” field with its ambiguous and subjective interpretations. The authors review studies that provide some evidence for c...
Skovholt, Jennings, and Mullenbach summarize and integrate data from all four qualitative studies and offer pathways to expertise taken by the ten master therapists, culminating with a portrait of the master therapist. The portrait includes central characteristics, paradoxical characteristics, eight overall themes, and a major expansion of the Cogn...
Qualitative research methods were used to elicit master therapists' statements regarding their use and understanding of the therapy relationship. The master therapists were identified and recruited in a previous study (Jennings & Skovholt, 1999) through a procedure used to create a sample of information-rich cases. The result of the analysis is a M...
Článok sa zameriava na problematiku vlastností a kompetencií tých terapeutov, ktorí sú považovaní za vynikajúcich vo svojom odbore – expertných terapeutov. Je to jeden z menej bežných prístupov ako skúmať prvky, ktoré sa v psychoterapii ukazujú ako efektívne. V úvode predstavíme známe metodologické prístupy k skúmaniu expertnosti v psychoterapii. P...
Trauma is ubiquitous in our society; therefore, it is important to explore how individuals cultivate healing after traumatic experiences. Yoga may be one avenue to cultivate healing. Qualitative methods were employed to study the role yoga practice played in the healing process of those who experienced interpersonal trauma. Eleven interpersonal tra...
An international team of Singaporean and American researchers conducted a qualitative investigation of the multicultural competencies of Singaporean master therapists. Six Singaporean master therapists, previously studied and identified through an extensive peer nomination sampling procedure (Jennings et al., 2008), were re-interviewed to explore h...
Reviews the book, Their finest hour: Master therapists share their greatest success stories edited by Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson (see record 2008-05761-000 ). This book is timely and reflective of current trends, dilemmas, and tensions in the therapy and counseling professions. One tension concerns epistemology. This book promotes the type of...
Qualitative research methods were used to elicit master therapists' statements regarding their use and understanding of the therapy relationship. The master therapists were identified and recruited in a previous study (Jennings & Skovholt, 1999) through a procedure used to create a sample of information-rich cases.The result of the analysis is a Mo...
As one of the great inventions of the last half of the 20th century, counseling offers great hope and promise. Yet for counseling practitioners, within this hope and promise, there is confusion about how to help and what constitutes mastery and expertise. It is like being in a fog and searching for mastery. And it matters because the counselor's co...
The study of expertise has a long and textured history, and it continues to be an active area of research among researchers and practitioners interested in human performance, giftedness, and achievement. In this literature review, we explore the concept of expertise across disciplines to gain a better understanding of the common elements of experti...
This study employed the Consensual Qualitative Research method (Hill, Thompson, & Williams, 1997) to reanalyze interview data from a previous qualitative study of the personal characteristics of master therapists (Jennings & Skovholt, 1999). Previous research has demonstrated that therapists utilize a variety of resources when making ethical decisi...
This book explores expertise in therapy and counseling. This book consists of four research studies of a group of ten master therapists who were selected for mastery by their professional peers. These are working masters, not famous one who write and teach more than practice. The sample group studies here represent seasoned therapists drawing upon...
