MA by Research, MPhil, PhD or EdD
The Centre for Counselling Studies welcomes applications from suitably qualified counsellors, or from members of other professions who have a significant interest in counselling, to study full or part-time for an MA by Research, MPhil or a PhD. Candidates are expected to undertake advanced research on topics of their own choice and which are associated with the research interests of the staff of the Centre for Counselling Studies or the Centre for Applied Research in Education. Applicants can be accepted at any time of the year, and if successful are usually registered at the beginning of each semester.
Counsellors working within educational settings may wish to consider the Doctorate in Education programme as a possible course of study. Those undertaking advanced research in the person-centred approach may be able to undertake a placement at the University Counselling Service through negotiation with the Director.
If you would like further information please contact the Postgraduate Research Office, Tel: +44 (0)1603 591709, email: pgr.enquiries.admiss@uea.ac.uk.
Current Research Interests of the Centre for Counselling Studies
Applications are welcomed for practice-based research that encompasses any of the following areas:
- Wholebody focusing;
- Process in client-centred therapy;
- Definitions of the self, including Eastern perspectives on the self;
- Focusing and working with experiential process;
- The impact of social environment on process and identity;
- Addiction in relation to individual processes and identity;
- Buddhist approaches to psychotherapy;
- The philosophical work of Eugene Gendlin;
- Moments of transformation.
Applications are particularly welcomed for participation in the following project, which would be located in the University Counselling Service;
Title
An investigation of counselling outcome and process over one year at the UEA Counselling Service
Abstract
This study will be the first in-depth analysis of the day-to-day client work of a university counselling service. The aim is to investigate factors that make Person-Centred counselling highly successful for some student and staff clients of the University Counselling Service at UEA while for some clients counselling simply does not work. At what stage can it be predicted whether or not counselling is likely to have a successful outcome for an individual? How might such knowledge impact on the work of the Counselling Service? These questions are particularly pertinent at a time when university counselling services throughout the UK are faced with increasing demand while their resources are either static or shrinking. There is a real need to discover how universities can make best use of their counselling resource and this study will be of national significance as well as specifically useful to UEA.
The investigation will build on a small-scale study already under way at the UEA Counselling Service. The research student will process quantitative data relating to outcome (through the use of CORE, the most commonly used counselling outcome measure in HE) and qualitative data relating to process (derived from questionnaires and post-session interviews) taken from a spread of student and staff clients over a complete academic year. Client sessions will also be recorded where possible by those counsellors willing to participate in the research and a sample of these recordings will be analysed by the research student for further triangulation of data.
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