Miltos Hadjiosif's Outputs (20)

Gaining prescription rights: A qualitative survey mapping the views of UK counselling and clinical psychologists (2024)
Journal Article

Objective: The British Psychological Society (BPS) has been exploring whether its practitioner members are interested in gaining prescription rights for psychiatric drugs and what such a privilege might look like. This qualitative study aimed to surv... Read More about Gaining prescription rights: A qualitative survey mapping the views of UK counselling and clinical psychologists.

Seduction, resistance, and the value of the Anvil (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper I sketch my journey of finding Autoethnography and creative-relational inquiry; orientations to scholarship that are so obviously relevant to my home discipline of Counselling Psychology, yet at the same time, so alien and unwelcome. Wh... Read More about Seduction, resistance, and the value of the Anvil.

Let there be chaos (2023)
Journal Article

Miltos Hadjiosif makes the case for autoethnography, in its image, and introduces a set of pieces from his students.

Am I a Community Psychologist? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In recent years, one of the most visible forms of UK Community Psychology is the Section that sits within the British Psychological Society (BPS). The Section has resisted calls from the BPS to develop specific competencies against which one’s use of... Read More about Am I a Community Psychologist?.

The blank slide of decolonization (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine

We are a student and a teacher from UWE’s Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Melissa is doing her doctorate research on how black women’s subjectivity is structured within psychotherapeutic training contexts, and Miltos is keen to lear... Read More about The blank slide of decolonization.

Autoethnography: Let there be chaos (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This symposium aims to reach to the edges of our discipline’s awareness in order to shine a light on a neglected research paradigm that has captured our imagination. Autoethnography is an approach to research that seeks to describe and systematically... Read More about Autoethnography: Let there be chaos.

The evolution of the community psychology festival (2022)
Book Chapter

November 2014 saw the inaugural British Psychological Society (BPS) Community Psychology Festival. The BPS Community Psychology Section Committee had a vision of an accessible, inclusive alternative to an academic conference, which materialised as a... Read More about The evolution of the community psychology festival.

Balancing on quicksand: Making sense of what 'the personal is political' means (2021)
Book Chapter

Editorial: A myriad of pathways (What cannot be counted reprise) (2021)
Journal Article

The ethos of the nourished wounded healer: A narrative inquiry (2021)
Journal Article

Despite a plethora of texts on the 'wounded healer', little systematic research has been conducted on unpacking the implications and embedded assumptions of this concept. This paper takes the 'wounded healer' into the research arena by approaching it... Read More about The ethos of the nourished wounded healer: A narrative inquiry.

Here be 'cognitivism' (2019)
Newspaper / Magazine

‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses constructions of psychotherapy in the lyrics of popular songs and identifies relevant discourses that are invoked or crafted. Despite a plethora of academic and clinical descriptions of psychotherapy, less research attention has... Read More about ‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics.

‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Despite a plethora of academic and clinical descriptions of psychotherapy, less research attention has been focused on the ways in which psychotherapy is talked about and represented in... Read More about ‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics.

How critical are we? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Community psychology: A bridge for psychotherapy and social justice (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Community psychology is a recently re-invigorated branch of applied psychology that challenges psychology’s heretofore claims to political neutrality. Community psychologists work in diverse settings and are sensitised by a social justice agenda that... Read More about Community psychology: A bridge for psychotherapy and social justice.

The narrative construction of the ‘wounded healer’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The relational turn in psychotherapy has broken down the therapist – patient divide that has dominated mental health practices, calling for a renewed examination of therapeutic practitioners’ subjectivity and motivations for entering the profession.... Read More about The narrative construction of the ‘wounded healer’.

Counselling psychologists in multi-systemic therapy: An uneasy ‘fit’? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Professional and ethical practice during training: The 'wounded healer' (2015)
Book Chapter

Book chapter

From strategy to process: Validation in dialectical behaviour therapy (2013)
Journal Article

Content and Focus: This paper explores how Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) elaborates upon the concept of validation as a strategic intervention and therapeutic stance. It examines the rationale for validating the ‘grain of wisdom’ in every clien... Read More about From strategy to process: Validation in dialectical behaviour therapy.

To what extent can the core conditions of therapeutic change championed by Carl Rogers (1957) be present in an individual psychodynamic therapy encounter? (2012)
Journal Article

Content and Focus: Person-centred therapy (PCT) and psychodynamic therapy frequently comprise two of the modalities that counselling psychologists are exposed to during their training, while the key concepts drawn from these domains continue to infor... Read More about To what extent can the core conditions of therapeutic change championed by Carl Rogers (1957) be present in an individual psychodynamic therapy encounter?.