Research on IAPT referrals, the effectiveness of university counselling and parents鈥� perceptions of school counselling are among the work being highlighted by 香港六合彩精准资料 staff at a national psychotherapy research conference.

Six members of our research team will be speaking at the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) UK chapter conference in Leeds this weekend.

Their presentations span the variety of counselling and psychotherapy research our team is involved in 鈥� including looking at counselling in schools, universities and the NHS, the impact of the pandemic on psychotherapy research, addictions counselling, and therapy outcomes.

The team鈥檚 work helps to build the evidence base for the counselling professions.

Greater impact

This event will help ensure this research reaches a wider audience and has a greater impact.

Dr Clare Symons, our Head of Research, said: 鈥淎s an organisation, we鈥檝e had a close relationship with SPR for many years so it鈥檚 great that we鈥檙e able to support this event and to bring our research to a wider audience of psychotherapy researchers.

鈥淭he projects the team is sharing represent a huge amount of work in collaboration with academic partners which 鈥� as with all our work 鈥� we鈥檝e undertaken and supported to meet our strategic aims of contributing to the evidence base and further improving the credibility of 香港六合彩精准资料 and the counselling professions.鈥�

Presentation topics

The research team presenting at the event, and the titles of their presentations, are:

Charlie Duncan, Senior Research Fellow: Referrals to high intensity interventions in IAPT: Level playing field or rigged game?

Robert Scruggs, Research Fellow: The impact of psychological distress and counselling on academic outcomes: outcomes from a practice-based dataset.

Jennifer O鈥橠onnell, Research Fellow: Towards a standard minimum dataset for counselling services in higher and further education: Part of the SCORE project.

Dr George Salaminios, Senior Research Fellow: Developing a Counselling and Psychotherapy Competency Framework for Addictions.

Phaedra Longhurst, Research Assistant: 鈥淭hey need somebody to talk to鈥�: Parents鈥� and carers鈥� perceptions of school-based humanistic counselling.

Dr Clare Symons, Head of Research: Contribution to structured discussion - Relevant or irrelevant?: Implications of the pandemic for psychotherapy research.

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