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Fox, Claudine (2011) Working with clients who engage in self-harming behaviour : experiences of a group of counsellors. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, Vol.39 (No.1). pp. 41-51. doi:10.1080/03069885.2010.531383 ISSN 0306-9885.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2010.531383
Abstract
This study aimed to explore the experiences of a group of counsellors regarding working with clients who engage in self-harming behaviour, in order to gain an understanding of what it is like to work with this client group. A series of six individual, semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out, which were then transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. Counsellors’ experiences were characterised by a number of themes, including the nature of self-harm, in terms of severity and vividness of description, stopping self-harm, incorporating social norms and therapeutic outcome, and organisational issues around balancing expectations from the agency, managing risk, and the counsellors’ own working. Findings suggest that working with clients who self-harm raises significant challenges for counsellors in relation to organisational policy and/or context, the impact that working with this client group may have on the therapist themselves, while the issue of stopping self-harm, and how this might be communicated to the client, raises implications for the therapeutic relationship. Here, the supervisory relationship may offer an invaluable resource.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Parasuicide, Counselor and client, Qualitative research | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Guidance & Counselling | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 0306-9885 | ||||
Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.39 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 41-51 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/03069885.2010.531383 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Version or Related Resource: | Fox, C. (2009). Working with clients who engage in self-harming behaviour : experiences of a group of counsellors. Conference paper presentation at the British Psychological Society Division of Counselling Psychology Conference, Warwick, 9th-11th July, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/40641 | ||||
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