What is it about?
This paper reviews a severely neglected aspect of research: events that occur for young people during psychotherapy or counselling. We show how little research addresses these events and examine the barriers that limit the extent to which they are reported and analysed in the literature. We recommend that psychotherapy and counselling researchers explore how these events impact therapy and amplify earlier events and abuse, as well as the known challenges of deprivation.
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Why is it important?
If we ignore the effects of events outside of the therapy happening during therapy we throw away vital information about the effectiveness of therapies and almost certainly increase already severe biases that stop us getting better information about children and adolescents from underprivileged and traumatised social settings.
Perspectives
Taking my author hat off, this matters to me because therapy research, and most service delivery globally moves in a vicious circle in which there is only evidence from, in global terms, privileged client groups and that research then drives what is offered to people as if this were selling groceries to make a profit (OK, here it's ostensibly to cut costs but the dehumanisation is the same).
Professor Chris Evans
CORE System Trust
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This page is a summary of: When life gets in the way: Systematic review of life events, socioeconomic deprivation, and their impact on counselling and psychotherapy with children and adolescents, Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, January 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/capr.12156.
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