Outputs (24)

Mindfulness in higher education: An evaluation of a four-year MBSR programme at a UK HEI (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

MBSR programmes within universities are well-established in the US and increasing in the UK, as levels of stress are high amongst students and staff.
The aim of this project was to evaluate an MBSR programme within a UK HE institution over a four y... Read More about Mindfulness in higher education: An evaluation of a four-year MBSR programme at a UK HEI.

Could therapeutic writing improve outcomes for adult clients diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa? A systematic review (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This poster will present the results of a recently completed systematic review examining whether therapeutic writing could improve outcomes for clients diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa. There is a great need for new and creative psychological therapi... Read More about Could therapeutic writing improve outcomes for adult clients diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa? A systematic review.

Group poetry therapy for clients recovering from anorexia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of client experience (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Poetry therapy, also known as bibliotherapy or therapeutic creative writing, is an arts-based therapy which uses creative writing or published literature for therapeutic means. Like other art therapies, it may be a useful addition to the range of in... Read More about Group poetry therapy for clients recovering from anorexia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of client experience.

Is ACT an existential therapy? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Acceptance and commitment therapy: An existential approach to therapy? (2015)
Journal Article

This paper aims to explore the similarities and tensions between Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and existential-phenomenological therapy. Parallel processes and attitudes are outlined, and conceptual and historical differences are discussed.... Read More about Acceptance and commitment therapy: An existential approach to therapy?.

Acceptance and commitment therapy: Friend or foe? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

UK counselling psychology training placements: Where are we now? (2014)
Journal Article

Background: Quality training placements are crucial to producing professional practitioner psychologists. However, as in other professions, accessing high-quality placements remains a struggle for trainee counselling psychologists. There is also a la... Read More about UK counselling psychology training placements: Where are we now?.

Recording therapy sessions: What do clients and therapists really think? (2013)
Journal Article

Aims: Recording therapy sessions has become part of routine practice amongst trainee psychotherapists. To date most research has focused on the benefits of recording sessions to support clinical supervision. There are few data about the benefits or r... Read More about Recording therapy sessions: What do clients and therapists really think?.

UK counselling psychology training placements: Where are we now? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Quality training placements are crucial to delivering quality learning and teaching and to producing professional practitioner psychologists. However, accessing high-quality placements remains a struggle for trainee counselling psychologists, and the... Read More about UK counselling psychology training placements: Where are we now?.

Poetry in therapy: An example of group bibliotherapy and therapeutic creative writing with clients with eating disorders (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose: In this paper, the author will describe her experience of setting up a poetry therapy group for inpatient and day patient clients as part of a group therapy programme for clients with eating disorders. In doing so, the paper will provide an... Read More about Poetry in therapy: An example of group bibliotherapy and therapeutic creative writing with clients with eating disorders.