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Research on psychoanalytic psychotherapy for women The Women's Therapy Centre (London) has published a report on Discovering Bits and Pieces of Me: research exploring women's experiences of psychoanalytical psychotherapy. This research sought to obtain evidence of the effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy directly from women who had attended therapy at the Women's Therapy Centre. Between 2003–2004, one-to-one interviews with 47 women who had attended therapy at the Centre were carried out by two female researchers. The women interviewed had been in therapy for between one month and eight years. Sixty-two per cent were in individual therapy, while 38 per cent were in group therapy, or attended group therapy preparation. The implications of the research suggest that, among other things, psychoanalytic psychotherapy is an effective intervention for women experiencing mental or emotional distress, enabling them to progress in their lives. Women frequently come to the Women's Therapy Centre after many years of extreme emotional unhappiness and great difficulty. For a summary and full copy of this report visit www.womenstherapycentre.co.uk. Research surgery dates Do you need to talk to someone about a research project or research dilemma in counselling and psychotherapy? Research Surgery dates for early 2006:
Sessions will take place between 2–4pm. To book please contact Kaye Richards, BACP Research Facilitator on 0870 443 5230 or email kaye.richards@bacp.co.uk. Divisional research The Association of Pastoral and Spiritual Care and Counselling (APSCC) is undertaking a survey to map the current provision and content of pastoral care and pastoral counselling training courses in the UK. The project will also compare and contrast course content. A questionnaire will be sent out to training providers listed in the UK Christian Handbook and other relevant providers. If you are an organisation that provides pastoral care and pastoral counselling training – or counselling training with this element within it – please contact Robert Jones, email: robert.work@freeuk.com or Kaye Richards, 0870 443 5230. Relational-cultural research The world's largest women's research centre, Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), brings together an interdisciplinary community of scholars engaged in research, training, analysis, and action at the Center for Research on Women and the Stone Center at Wellesley College. Their work is dedicated to looking at the world through the eyes of women, with the goal of shaping a better world for all. All of their publications grow out of work conducted by researchers, visiting scholars or faculty at the Center for Research on Women, the Stone Center and WCW institutes. Relational References: a selected bibliography of research, theory, and applications, Hartling LM, Ly JK, Nassery N, Califa KP, 2nd ed. Stone Center, Wellesley College, MA, USA; 2003, offers a selected bibliography of the emerging body of literature describing relational-cultural research, theory, and applications. Related areas include: diversity; shame, anger, and depression; substance abuse, addictions and eating disorders; and therapeutic applications. For further details of WCW publications, research and projects see www.wcwonline.org. Looking back on 2005 It has been an action-packed year in the Research Department. We have commissioned three systematic scoping reviews and a range of research information sheets, offered seed-corn research funding, supported Divisional research activity, looked at research training and its role in counselling and psychotherapy training, set up regular Research Surgeries and held another successful annual research conference. During 2005 many people have given their time, expertise and energy in supporting the activity of the Research Department. We would like to sincerely thank the following people who have acted as peer reviewers and/or authors/ special advisors: Michael Barkham, Tim Bond, Liz Bondi, Pete Bower, Alison Brettle, Julia Buckroyd, Ruth Caleb, Mike Carter, Janice Connell, Mick Cooper, Courtland Lee , John Cowley, Belinda Harris, Andy Hill, Michael King, Michael Lambert, Pittu Laungani, John Lees, John McLeod, John Mellor-Clark, Glenys Parry, Morag Patten, Susan Pattison, Cecilia Rachier, Alistair Ross, David Rennie, Anthony Roth, Margaret Schofield, Bill Stiles, Sue Wheeler and Frank Wills. We wish everyone a happy and fulfilling 2006. Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR UK): Bringing research into psychotherapy training The winter meeting of the UK chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, held on 8 December, examined the research agenda for psychotherapy training – that is, how can and should research be taught as part of psychotherapy training? Dr Chris Evans (Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust and current SPR UK President) opened the meeting by talking about developing SPR and psychotherapy research in the UK. He identified how we need to promote research to both improve the service offered to clients and help those people who deliver psychotherapy services. However, to achieve this, counselling and psychotherapy need to examine how we connect to the 'power brokers' and how fellow therapists can read and 'hear' research more fully. Dr Chris Mace (University of Warwick) took a critical look at what trainees are being taught about psychotherapy research. He highlighted the broad expectation that a course should have a research component – the question then being how and what to teach. Chris considered how to recognise, adapt to and meet the needs of students on courses when teaching about research. Among other points, he noted that trainers should acknowledge and reduce anxiety on the topic of research, work from the personally familiar and appeal to existing knowledge and interest. Dr Jo-Anne Carlyle (Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust) described her work in the Tavistock Adult Depression Study on the use of an adherence manual. She asked questions of how psychotherapy research can be brought into training and, vice versa, how psychotherapy training can be brought into research. She pointed out that in order to do quality research in this study the researchers needed to be involved in clinical practice. For example, in order for a researcher to be able to make judgements about data from audio-tapes they needed to know what was happening in the session, thus a research/practice link in this context is essential. Workshops and plenary discussion included further debates about practice/research networks; clinicians, research and NICE guidelines; and the ways in which service evaluation is under threat. Concerns were raised that when we have the capability to use certain advanced research techniques and methodologies, we can put ourselves at risk of leaving the patient outside of the process. Concerns were also raised about how practitioners can become consumers of research and where the psychotherapy researchers of the future will come from. These concerns directly linked back to the overarching theme of the day – the role and ways of bringing research into psychotherapy training. The next SPR meeting is 16 March 2006. For further details of SPR (UK) see www.spr.org.uk/ index.html; for SPR (world-wide) see www.psychotherapyresearch.org. Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs) Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs) has been set up to identify patients' and clinicians' questions about the effects of treatments which cannot currently be answered reliably by referring to up-to-date systematic reviews of existing research. (It does not include unanswered questions about the frequency, cause and diagnosis of health problems.) Information in DUETS will help those responsible for promoting and supporting research on the effects of treatments to take into account the information needs of patients and clinicians. This may entail providing support for the preparation of up-to-date systematic reviews of existing evidence, if these are not available, or for research to generate additional evidence if up-to-date systematic reviews make clear that it is necessary. See www.duets.nhs.uk New and established researchers, as well as counsellors who want to know more about research, or how it can inform practice are welcome at the forthcoming BACP Annual Research Conference. See www.bacp.co.uk/research/conference2006 or to register your interest as a delegate email sally.wigston@bacp.co.uk Invitation to tender BACP is commissioning a new review of research literature on Counselling and Psychotherapy for People with Eating Disorders as part of its series of systematic scoping reviews. Expressions of interest are invited and the deadline for tender submission is 21 April 2006. Funds of up to £10,000 are available. For details of the tender process visit www.bacp.co.uk/research or contact Suky Khele, Research Office Administrator on 0870 443 6014 or email sukhdeep.khele@bacp.co.uk |
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