2024 National Research Success
BACP Annual Research Conference 2024
Our Student’s Success
Presenting Research Students at the BACP Network Dinner with Chris Brown & Tina Corcoran
This year saw our students present four Research Papers at the BACP National Research Conference and we congratulate them all on their success.
Presenters: Lidia Bhaskar, Sarah Craddock,
Other Authors: Branimira Dineva and Jun Jackson
Professional Role: Higher Professional Diploma Students/Counsellors in Training
Institute/Affiliation: Lewisham Counselling & Counsellor Training Associates
Title: What difficulties, if any, have the parents of home-schooled children under 16 years of age experienced in seeking psychotherapeutic services for their children; and can this inform the counselling/psychotherapeutic profession?
Aims/Purpose: Our research aimed to investigate the experiences of parents of home-schooled children under 16 years of age, in relation to seeking psychotherapeutic services for their children. Our purpose is to inform the counselling profession/practitioners of any issues arising for/affecting this client-group.
Presenters: Stuart Gilmour, Sarah Law
Other Authors: Rebecca Lynn, Blue Reeves
Professional Role: Higher Professional Diploma Students/Counsellors in Training
Institute/Affiliation: Lewisham Counselling and Counsellor Training Associates LLP
Title: Exploring 18-25-year-old cis male’s attitudes to psychotherapy, what this means to them and how this might inform the psychotherapeutic profession
Aim/Purpose: Our aim was to explore 18-25 cisgendered men’s attitudes towards accessing and/or receiving psychotherapy. Our purpose is to better inform the psychotherapeutic community of the existing attitudes toward psychotherapy within this client-group.
Presenters: Julie Davies and Julie Prendergast
Other Authors: Vincent Vincent, Lesley Tucker
Professional Role: Higher Professional Diploma Students/Counsellors in Training
Institute/Affiliation: Lewisham Counselling & Counsellor Training Associates
Title: How do clients who identify themselves as fat experience the therapeutic alliance when their weight is introduced into the therapeutic frame; and how can this further inform psychotherapy?
Aim or Purpose: To explore how clients who identify themselves as fat experience counselling in relation to their weight being brought into the therapeutic frame and how this might impact on the therapeutic alliance itself; to further inform practitioners of any pertinent issues experienced/raised by this client group.
Presenters: Sammy Thornhill, Rachel Kraftman
Authors: Rachel Kraftman, Sammy Thornhill, Patsy Winters
Professional Role: Higher Professional Diploma Students
Institute/Affiliation: Lewisham Counselling & Counsellor Training Associates
Key Words: Travellers, Discrimination, Access Barriers
Title: How do members of the Traveller community experience accessing counselling in the UK and what, if any, are the implications for psychotherapeutic practitioners?
Aim or purpose: To explore if members of the Traveller Community seeking/wanting to access counselling/psychotherapy experience any barriers in doing so. Our purpose is to better inform practitioners of any barriers experienced by members of this community.