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Title: | Developing a shared language within arts psychotherapies: A personal construct psychology approach to understanding clinical change |
Authors: | Havsteen-Franklin, D Jovanovic, N Reed, N Charles, M Lucas, C |
Keywords: | arts therapies;personal construct psychology;consensus;interventions;constructs |
Issue Date: | 13-May-2017 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Havsteen-Franklin, D., Jovanovic, N., Reed, N., Charles, M. and Lucas, C. (2017) 'Developing a shared language within arts psychotherapies: A personal construct psychology approach to understanding clinical change', Arts in Psychotherapy, 55, pp. 103 - 110. doi 10.1016/j.aip.2017.05.002. |
Abstract: | This study aims to answer the question, ‘How do arts psychotherapists describe their practice in sessions with clients who have severe mental illness?’ The authors explore the use of personal construct psychology (PCP) methods to gather and build consensus about how arts psychotherapists describe in-session therapeutic interventions (constructs) in adult mental health services, working with patients diagnosed with severe mental illnesses. We used PCP techniques to interview seven arts psychotherapists (art, music, drama and dance movement psychotherapists) about in-session constructs relating to clinically significant events. PCP assumes that the interviewee holds personal perspectives and makes decisions based on their system of personal constructs. The results showed that there were overarching categories for the in-session constructs elicited from arts psychotherapists during interviews. These constructs were subjected to an intensive categorising process that produced a final set of 14 bipolar constructs describing 28 alternative therapeutic constructs. The in-session constructs cover a wide range of interventions from empathic attunement to narrative reconstruction. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/17104 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2017.05.002 |
ISSN: | 0197-4556 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Arts and Humanities Research Papers |
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