Students’ National Research Success
During the 2 years of study on the HPD in Counselling our students engage in a Sub-Group Research Project which spans an eighteen month period.
LC&CTA encourages its students to share their research at national level and sponsors its successful students to present at the Annual bacp National Research Conference which is held in various parts of the country, during May each year. LC&CTA students have successfully had numerous research papers accepted for presentation at this Conference since 2006.
LC&CTA National and International Awards and Accolades
2008
A bacp prize for Chris Brown for supporting student research.
2011
Our student’s Research Paper (as below) was highlighted by the bacp in its monthly publication “Theraphy Today”.
‘What impact, if any, does diet and nutrition have on a person with bi-polar disorder and what are the implications of this on psychotherapeutic practice?’
Back Row Left to Right: Ruth Davis/ Ann Levene/ Mary Lewis/ Helen Strutt/ Vicki Badham Front Row Left to Right: Evanne Constantine/ Wesley Freeman-Smith/ Bev-Elise Carpenter
2012
Paul Cilia La Corte receives the PCCS Books National Prize for Student Research. The Research Group’s Poster in-situ below:
2013
LC&CTA Students Win 2nd National Prize
For the second year running we were very pleased to announce that a sub-group of LC&CTA Higher Professional Diploma students won the PCCS National Research Prize for Person-Centred Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
The Winning Sub-Group of LC&CTA Higher Professional Diploma in Counselling Students
Their Winning Research Paper:
“Person centred counsellors’ experiences of working with sex- addiction”
The winning group of Trainee Counsellors collected their £500.00 Prize from PCCS at the British Association for Counselling & Psychptheraphy.
2015
CPCAB in conjunction with the BACP
'Commended National Research Award'
Providing a reflective understanding of how issues of ethnicity and racism are both experienced and addressed in counselling training.
2019
Below the Research present by our student researchers, Shondelle James and Michael McQueen, received the highest commendment from Professor Robert Elliot who asked both students to received a standing ovation at the closing plenary of the conference … praise does not come much higher than that!
Student Research Poster Presentation
BACP National Research Conference 2016
‘Person-centred Counsellors’ experiences of working with clients experiencing schizophrenia.’
2023
Therapy Today Research Publication
The above LC&CTA students’ Research was published in September 2023 by the bacp in its magazine Therapy Today – we appreciate our students hard work and their contribution to the empirical knowledge base of our profession.
2025
The European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy (EAIP) invited the members of the 'Fatphobia in the GLBTQ+ Community' Research Group to further publish their paper in the predacious professional European magazine The European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy: an accolade to the quality of our students' work and research findings!