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.
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 |
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Dr Jill Aebi-Mytton |
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Dr Diane Allen |
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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 |
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Dr Saira Bains |
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Dr Anne Barley-Isaac |
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Dr Thaddeus Birchard |
Sexual Addiction: A Psychotherapeutic Approach |
Dr Saphira Bjorna
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Dr Janine Braier |
Profiling Parents in Family Proceedings: A Diagnostic Manual for Parenting Assessment |
Dr Joan Camileri
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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
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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 |
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Dr Val Daveridge |
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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
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Dr Celia Eggeling |
The Role of the Counsellor in a Living Donor Kidney Programme |
Dr Sonja Falck |
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Dr Jane Fenn |
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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 |
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Dr Guy Harrison |
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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 |
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Dr Rosalind Hewitt |
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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 |
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Dr Melanie Hopkins |
Staff Experience of Hope in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital |
Dr Rosa Hubbard-Ford |
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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 |
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Dr Werner Kierski |
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Dr Rupert King |
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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 |
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Dr Tom McGrath |
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Dr Isha McKenzie-Mavinga |
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Dr Aisling McMahon |
Practising psychotherapy as a clinical psychologist: What facilitates capable practice |
Dr Cathy McQuaid |
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Dr Denise Meyer |
Depression resources for students and therapists - practical applications for social constructionist theory |
Dr Ann Milne |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dr Meriel Powell |
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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 |
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Dr Paula Reardon |
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Dr Pauline Rennie-Peyton |
Dignity at Work: Eliminate Bullying and Create a Positive Working Environment |
Dr Joanna Ringrose |
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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 |
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Dr Elspeth Schwenk |
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Dr Susan Scupham |
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Solution focused group work: The development of a text book for Psychotherapists |
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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 |
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Dr Lynne Souter-Anderson |
Exploring the use of clay in therapy |
Dr Jennifer Stuart-Dixon |
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Dr Judith Sullivan |
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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 |
The Therapeutic Functions of Mental Imagery in Psychotherapy: Constructing a Theoretical Model |
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Dr Diana Voller |
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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