Invitation to View Abstracts of completed DPsych(Prof) Research Projects

The Doctorate in Psychotherapy by Professional Studies - DPsych (Prof) - has run successfully since 1998, and year on year our graduates have produced leading-edge research, designed to make a direct impact on the theory and practice of therapy. The Programme Team and candidates together, constitute a research-active scholarly community focussing, in collaboration with the Institute for Work Based Learning at Middlesex University, on supporting and nurturing doctoral-level research activity among qualified professional practitioners.

These practitioners are ideally-placed, to identify areas of practice where rigorous research can make an impact. There are currently more than sixty(60) candidates registered on the programme and engaged in a wide spectrum of research. The information below, on the research already completed, provides an indication of the breadth and significance of completed work, by programme alumni.

The Doctorate in Psychotherapy by Public Works commenced in 2007 and provides an opportunity for senior and accomplished practitioners, who have made a substantial contribution to the field of psychological therapy to undertake a critical and reflexive audit of their achievements.

Professor Simon du Plock
Head of Post-Qualification Doctorates

DOCTORATE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY BY PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

Graduates title of Research

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Dr Marie Adams	Private Lives of Therapists: Challenges for Therapeutic Practise
Dr Stephen Adams-Langley	The Place2Be in the inner city: How can a voluntary sector mental health service have an impact on children's mental health and the school environment?
Dr Jill Aebi-Mytton	A Narrative Exploration of the Lived Experience of being Born, Raised in, and Leaving a Cultic Group: The Case of the Exclusive Brethren
Dr Diane Allen	The Self and Psychosis: A Personal Construct Psychology study locating aspects of the self in experience labelled as psychosis and exploring the implications of the meaning of the experience for engagement in therapy
Dr Aileen Alleyne	A Psychotherapeutic understanding of Black Identity in Workplace Contexts
Dr Julia Arnold	Practice Based Supervision. The Emergence of CDT: A Collaborative, Developmental and Transdisciplinary Model of Practitioner Supervision. Based on the Concepts of Gestalt Psychotherapy and a Global Paradigm
Dr Claire Asherson-Bartram	Narratives of Mothers in Stepfamily Situations, an exploratory investigation
Dr Anne Atkinson	The long-term post-abortion experience: what does a psychotherapeutic study reveal about its nature and potential therapeutic input?
Dr Saira Bains	An Autoethnographic Exploration into Transforming the Wounds of Racism. Implications for Psychotherapy
Dr Anne Barley-Isaac	Working overseas - Stresses and Solutions?
Dr Thaddeus Birchard	Sexual Addiction: A Psychotherapeutic Approach
Dr Saphira Bjorna	An investigation of the dynamics of the personal will versus a Higher Power in Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step treatment of Substance Use Disorder
Dr Louise Blundell	Clearing the cobwebs of misunderstanding about emotional distress: Psycho-educative booklets for Primary Care
Dr Janine Braier	Profiling Parents in Family Proceedings: A Diagnostic Manual for Parenting Assessment
Dr Joan Camileri	A Psychotherapeutic perspective of the lived experience of leaders during a period of transition
Dr Ruth Caleb & Dr Pushpinder Chowdhry	An Inquiry into the role of the University counselling service: Towards a Collaborative Model of Institutional Support
Dr Norman Claringbull	The Fourth Wave in Workplace Counselling - towards the understanding and the development of the professional specialisation of workplace counselling
Dr Sarah Conn	A Phenomenological Study of  Help Seeking Behaviours and Coping Strategies of International Students of Non-European Backgrounds
Dr Nigel Copsey	Spirituality and Mental Health
Dr Mary Creaner	What is 'Good Supervision'?
Dr Debbie Daniels	Gloria decoded: An application of Robert Langs' communicative approach to psychotherapy
Dr Maxine Daniels	The use of role play as a therapeutic tool in clinical practice: What do sexual offenders experience when role reversing with their victims in Her Majesty's Prison Service core sex offender treatment programme?
Dr Val Daveridge	What factors influence the Psychological and Emotional Impact on Police Officers: Towards a Model of Support
Dr Mike Davies	Critical aspects of therapy in the context of child care legal proceedings: An emergency framework
Dr Tim Dunne	An Investigation into Therapists' Beliefs about how Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) works in Clinical Practice: Do the Eyes have it?
Dr Dagmar Edwards	Building Bridges: Introducing Concepts from Neuroscience and Attachment Theory to Person-Centred Practitioners
Dr Celia Eggeling	The Role of the Counsellor in a Living Donor Kidney Programme
Dr Sonja Falck	The Child, the Emperor, and the Fabulous Clothes: Constructing a theory of how interpersonal difficulty in gifted adults arises, is perpetuated, and can be overcome.
Dr Jane Fenn	What function can a community counselling service play in a socially deprived area; the role of the Therapeutic Entrepreneur
Dr Linda Garbutt	Managing Psychotherapeutic Practice between External Supervision Sessions: Understanding and using the concept of an Internal Supervisor
Dr Patrick Gould	Psychotherapy with Deaf People: Narrowing the Gap between Hearing Therapist and Deaf Client
Dr Neil Scott Gordon	The Swamp Workers' Stories - An exploration or practitioners' perspectives as a foundation for the development of a context sensitive develpment programme in a forensic setting.
Dr Guy Harrison	The Relationship between Counselling and Psychotherapy and Spiritual and Pastoral Care in the Practice of a Healthcare Chaplain: An Autoethnographic Narrative Case Study Evaluation
Dr Robin Hart	Therapeutic response to performance anxiety: Extending clinical research into the experience of artistic performance
Dr Rosemary Helyar	An innovative treatment for weight-related hyperphagia: A physiological treatment for clinically obese patients
Dr Jeanette Hennigan	Online counselling in schools as an additional option to face-to-face provision: Exploration of pupils’ experiences and comparison of effectiveness of working in different modalities.
Dr Rosalind Hewitt	Recovery and transformation - a humanistic integrative approach to schizophrenia/schizo-affective disorder. The Client's perspective
Dr Diane Hodgson	The impact of diversity on complaints procedures and the case for mediation
Dr Carol Holliday	An Exploration of the Contributions of Psychotherapy to the Teacher/Child Relationship
Dr Geraldine Holton	Understanding & Using Cross-Professional Supervision
Dr Melanie Hopkins	Staff Experience of Hope in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital
Dr Rosa Hubbard-Ford	The Role of Psychotherapy in Assisting Religious Leaders to Work Appropriately with Abuse. A multiple case study approach
Dr Coleen Jones	Aspects of the transference, countertransference and phonomenology, as manifest in the therapeutic relationship between female therapists and their clients
Dr Sue Jones	The psychotherapeutic understanding of organisational function: Shadow and transparency
Dr Lynne Jordan	Into the Centre of the Fire: Working with Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Dr Elizabeth Marie Jordan	The Professional is Personal. An Evaluative Enquiry into the 'Experience' of Setting Up and Managing a University Counselling Service
Dr Anne Kearns	Professional development and informed practice in the area of ethical complaints
Dr Deborah Kelly	An Inquiry into the Nature of Therapeutic Space In palliative care groups, working with nature and imagination
Dr Werner Kierski	Courage under Fire: Anxiety and Male Psychotherapists
Dr Rupert King	Standing in the Clearing: A Phenomenology of Openness in late Heidgger – a guide for research-practitioners
Dr Christine Knowles	The Psychological implications of cancer survival: A group work approach to re-integration
Dr Maria Koliris	'Becoming Who You Are': The experience of mindfulness in UK Therapists and Greek Counselling Trainees
Dr Olivia Lousada	A Phenomenological Inquiry into the relationship of adult opposite sex twins
Dr Kate Maguire	The Language and Concepts of Pain
Dr David Mair	Mind the Gap? Exploring contemporary gay, bisexual and queer male experience and the provision of relevant and appropriate counselling in British University settings
Dr Tom McGrath	An exploration of the treatment needs and model of service required for clients who experience post traumatic stress from a public health perspective
Dr Isha McKenzie-Mavinga	Understanding black issues in Counsellor Training
Dr Aisling McMahon	Practising psychotherapy as a clinical psychologist: What facilitates capable practice
Dr Cathy McQuaid	Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy Training: An investigation into the factors that influence the perceived experiences and outcomes of training for both trainees and trainers
Dr Denise Meyer	Depression resources for students and therapists - practical applications for social constructionist theory
Dr Ann Milne	Dysfunctional families their social workers and the role of therapeutic professional intervention. An evaluation of (Rogerian) Person Centered counselling training programmes
Dr Robert Moore	A Participatory Inquiry applying a model of usefulness in supervision to facilitate reflection and learning for a multidisciplinary trauma team in the north of Ireland
Dr Sandra Moore	Provision of psychotherapeutic counselling in the voluntary sector. A case study
Dr Jean Morrison	Dreams, Disability, Psychotherapy and Supervision: 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on'
Dr Geoff Mothersole	Closing the Loop: engaging with clinical outcomes in routine evaluation data
Dr Joanna North	How do we transform the lives of young people with Extreme Behavioural Difficulties (Culminating in a Handbook and Training Manual for Practitioners and Carers Demonstrating the Application of Attachment Theory to Practice)
Dr Gerard O'Neill	An Exploration of the Introduction and Impact of the CORE Instrument on Professional Practitioners in an Established Health Service Counselling Service
Dr Els van Ooijen	A personal reflection on the praxis of integrative psychotherapy`
Dr Lynda Osborne	Becoming the Head of a Psychotherapy Department. A Gestalt Perspective
Prof Simon du Plock	Bibliotherapy and Beyond. An existential-phenomenological approach to the therapeutic use of literature in clinical practice
Dr Meriel Powell	Exploring the Territory of Shame: Building awareness of ways in and out of shame through a co-creative investigation of metaphors around the shame experience
Dr Alan Priest	You and I listening to me: Towards an understanding of the significance of personal pronoun usage in psychotherapy
Dr Kathy Raffles	Fitness to Practice? The effect of personal illness, loss or trauma on the Independent Practitioner's practice: How Practitioners manage the effect of this with regard to the working relationship
Dr Colin Ralph	A Study of Issues and Practices Concerning the Referral and Assessment of Patients for Psychological Therapy
Dr Paula Reardon	Improving Retention of Inernational Students in Higher Education and their Experience of Study Abroad: A Psychotherapeutic Contribution
Dr Pauline Rennie-Peyton	Dignity at Work: Eliminate Bullying and Create a Positive Working Environment
Dr Joanna Ringrose	Dissociative Identity Disorder and the Disociative Disorders: An Exploration of Contemporary Theory and Practice
Dr Biljana van Rijn	Enquiry into Psychotherapy Training. Challenges to developing a generic foundation year and links to clinical practice training
Dr Anne Rogers	Ethical Complaints: Towards a best practice for psychotherapy and counselling organisations
Dr Jonathan Rogers	Tales from a Dark Island: A critical commentary of the development, implementation and evaluation of a model of neurorehabilitation for offenders with cognitive difficulties and the concomitant delivery and evaluation of a training course for staff in a forensic setting
Dr Elspeth Schwenk	Professional development: examining how practitioners experience and manage the ongoing development of their professional career in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Dr Susan Scupham	Life after suicide: Psychotherapists and practitioners speak about their experiences of working with suicidal clients and the impact it has on them when their client dies
Dr John Sharry	Solution focused group work: The development of a text book for Psychotherapists
Dr Anne Smith	Working with bereaved people: a psychotherapy training action research study
Dr Paul Smith-Pickard	The body of encounter: A phenomenology of embodied inter-experience
Dr Bernice Sorensen	Not Special but Different: The adult only-child experience
Dr Lynne Souter-Anderson	Exploring the use of clay in therapy
Dr Jennifer Stuart-Dixon	Identifying and providing strategies for addressing the needs of pre-adolescent females secual decision-making in St James Jamaica
Dr Judith Sullivan	Contemporary Debriefing: Managing workplace trauma within the Police. Designing a Workplace Trauma Training Programme
Dr Margaret Tholstrup	The co-therapy Relationship in Group Psychotherapy: A Phenomenological Inquiry
Dr Kim Thomas	Women and sexual violence, paths to healing: Resistance, Rebellion, Resilience and Recovery
Dr Val Thomas	The Therapeutic Functions of Mental Imagery in Psychotherapy: Constructing a Theoretical Model
Dr Diana Voller	Negative Capability. An exploration of therapists' capacity to be in uncertainty in clinical practise
Dr Helen Voller	Developing the Understanding of Reflective Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Dr Heward Wilkinson	The Muse as Therapist: A Platonic Paradigm for Knowledge in Psychotherapy': Methodological Commentary on 'The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy'

Recipients of the Jenifer Elton Wilson Award for an outstanding Professional Knowledge Paper are:

Stephen Adams-Langley, Janine Braier, Alyson Coleman, Rosalind Hewitt, Diane Hodgson, Carol Holliday, Robert Moore and Simon du Plock

Recipents of the Derek Portwood Award for a Final Project that makes a significant professional impact are:

Maxine Daniels, Mike Davies, Marcella Finnerty, Shelley Gilbert, Anne Rogers and Val Thomas.

DOCTORATE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY BY PUBLIC WORKS

Dr Kate Anthony	Developing Counselling and Psychotherapy in the Age of Technology and the Internet
Dr Nazee Akbari	A Holistic Approach to Support Mental Wellbeing of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Dr Kate Birch	Synthesising Theory to Create Psychologically Informed Programmes for the Empowerment of Parents and Teachers in New Zealand and Austria
Dr Benna Chase	Self as a Bridge between Psychology/Psychotherapy and Religion in the Area of Palliative Care: Integrity and Growth in the Maltese Context
Dr Marie Anne Chidiac	A synthesis of Gestalt psychotherapy and organisational change
Dr Kiran Chitta	Change Agility: Growing the Capacity for Creative Adjustment in ‘The Global Field
Dr Peter Cockersell	Recovery Through Public Works. A Psychodynamic Perspective on Change and Complexity at Personal, Organisational & Social Levels
Dr Niki Cooper	Enhancing the wellbeing and prospects of children and their families through training: from practice (doing) to theory (thinking) and back again. The development of a professional qualifications department in a service delivery organisation
Dr Beverley Costa	An Audit of the Organisation Mothertongue Multi-Ethnic Counselling Service
Dr Sally Denham Vaughan	Re-enactment of Psychological Services organisational strategy, leadership and implementation as informed by a Gestalt perspective
Dr Zack Eleftheriadou	Incorporating Cross-cultural issues in Psychotherapy: A Relational Framework
Dr Ken Evans	Contributing to the development of psychotherapy as a profession in the United Kingdom and Europe 1987 to 2008
Dr Jane Fossey	Transforming Knowledge into Practice: The reciprocal relationship between care delivery and research.
Dr Helena Hargaden	The Bi-directionality of the Relational Unconscious
Dr Lucy Johnstone	Psychological Formulation: a Radical Perspective
Dr Willem Lammers	An Odyssey in Guided Change
Dr Talia Levine Bar-Yoseph	About being the Bridge
Prof Yair Maman	Community-based counsellor training, incorporating outreach elements with community needs.
Dr Kathryn May	Psychotherapeutic work with and for marginalised groups: Demonstrations of reflexive activism.
Dr Patricia Mylan	Child protection in Asia: A postmodern multi-system psychotherapeutic approach.
Dr Leanne O’Shea	Voices from the Margins: Building access to complex, dependable, dense networks of support
Dr Isabel Rogers	Delivering Psychological Innovation to the Criminal Justice System: The Business of Clinical Consultancy
Dr Jennifer Sandelson	Crossing the Line Establishing counselling training in hard to reach and marginalised communities
Dr Satwant Singh	Hoarding Disorder: New Horizon
Dr Rytis Stelingis	Contribution to the origins and development of Gestalt Psychotherapy in Lithuania 1993 to 2013
Dr Margot Sunderland	The application of art and science to the psychological treatment of children.
Dr Mike Talbot	Conflict, Commerce and Contact Gestalt Theory and Conflict Resolution
Dr Geoff Warburton	With Love: Collaborating with the evolution of love in self and society through psychotherapy

Graduates title of Research

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Invitation to View Abstracts of completed DPsych(Prof) Research Projects

Recipents of the Derek Portwood Award for a Final Project that makes a significant professional impact are:

DOCTORATE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY BY PUBLIC WORKS

Copies of current DPsych theses are now available to view on the Middlesex University E-Repository