Slide 2 IACP Inaugural Conference: Strengthening Therapeutic
Relationships Dr. Marcella Finnerty, IICP Friday October 16th, 2015
The Yearning for Connection Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Slide 6 Slide 7
Carl Rogers Slide 8 Plant, Nurture, Grow and Harvest? Slide 9
Yearning for Connection: What we do well How do Integrative
Psychotherapists Integrate A qualitative study of 14 experienced
Irish integrative psychotherapists : All considered the therapeutic
alliance as pivotal to the success of therapy Interpretative
Phenomenological Analysis (IPA): Participants Voice: Reflective and
therapist-friendly Slide 10 Therapist Awareness: How do we know?
How do we know if what we are doing is working? And What do we do
if it is not? Slide 11 Session Rating Scale Exercise Think of your
last session with you as the client or supervisee and complete the
form as client or supervisee Slide 12 Marking the line nearest best
fit Slide 13 Use 10cm paper ruler score from 0-10 Slide 14 Session
Rating Scale In pairs discuss the process of completing the form
Can you see how (or if) this might be helpful to the therapeutic
alliance? Slide 15 A Pluralistic Perspective Mick Cooper and John
McLeod consider this pluralistic approach starts from an assumption
that different things are likely to help different people at
different points of time (2011, p.6) Slide 16 The Blind-Folded
Darts Player Slide 17 A Reminder: Clinicians must remember that the
improvement of psychotherapy may best be accomplished by learning
to improve one's ability to relate to clients (Lambert & Barley
2001) Slide 18 Some final thoughts to ponder upon How can we
utilise our practice to inform research, improve client outcomes
and ensure we do not become less relevant as healthcare
professionals? One client: One alliance measure: One Conversation
NEXT WEEK Slide 19 Role of IACP: 1. Create and resource a research
culture 2. Establish and support practice research networks 3.
Facilitate access to research journal articles Slide 20 Fully Alive
Dawna Markova Slide 21 Conclusion Thank you Contact details:
Marcella Finnerty (086-2609989) email:
[email protected]@iicp.ie www.iicp.ie Slide 22 Fully Alive I
will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or
catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to
open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my
heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk
my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to
the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on
as fruit. Dawna Markova Slide 23 Pro Bono: Outcome Measures and
General Research Clinical Outcome Feedback Measures:
CORE-34/CORE-10 www.coreims.co.ukwww.coreims.co.uk Outcome Rating
Scale (ORS) www.scottdmiller.comwww.scottdmiller.com General
Research: www.google.comwww.google.com or
www.googlescholar.comwww.googlescholar.com Alliance Outcomes
Feedback Measures: Session Rating Scale (SRS)
www.scottdmiller.comwww.scottdmiller.com Therapy Personalization
Form (TPF) [email protected]
[email protected] Slide 24 References Cooper M. (2008).
Essential Research Findings In Counselling and Psychotherapy: The
facts are friendly. London: BACP Sage. Duncan, B.L., Miller, S.D.,
Wampold, B.E. & Hubble, M.A. (Eds.), (2010). The Heart &
Soul of Change: Delivering what works in therapy. (2 nd edition).
London: APA. Lambert, M.J. (2010). Prevention of Treatment Failure:
The use of measuring, monitoring and feedback in clinical practice.
Washington DC: APA Slide 25 References Orlinsky D.E. &
Rnnestad, M.H (2005). How Psychotherapists Develop: A study of
therapeutic work and professional growth. Washington: APA Rnnestad,
M.H. & Skovolt (2013), The Developing Practitioner: Growth and
stagnation of therapists and counselors. London: Routledge McLeod,
J. (2001). Developing a research tradition consistent with the
practices and values of counselling and psychotherapy: Why
counselling and psychotherapy research is necessary. European
Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 14 (1), pp. 19-32. Slide
26 References Okiishi J.C., Lambert, M.J. Nielsen, S.L., &
Ogles, B.M (2003). Waiting for supershrink: An empirical analysis
of therapist effects. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 10,
pp. 361-373. Schwartz,B., & J. V. Flowers (2010). How to Fail
as a Therapist. California: Impact Publishers (2 nd edition).
Unsworth, G., H. Cowie & A. Green (2011). Therapists and
clients perceptions of routine outcome measurement in the NHS: A
qualitative study. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research
DOI:10.1080/14733145.2011.565125 Google it! Slide 27 Creating
Relationships The degree to which I can create relationships, which
facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure
of the growth I have achieved in myself - Carl R. Rogers Slide 28
Engaging Clients Perspectives Engaging clients in a dialogue about
what clients believe is likely to help them is a key tenet of
pluralistic practice Slide 29 Pot of Gold
