Life Experiences
Conditions
Keywords
violence
Brief summary
The objective of the proposed research is to gain a detailed understanding and account of psychologists' experience of client violence in clinical practice. The emphasis is upon a detailed understanding of how psychologists perceive and understand their experience of client violence and its impact upon their identity as clinicians and as individuals.
Detailed description
This research is interested in Counselling and Clinical Psychologists who have experienced client violence at their work place. The main research question being asked is how do psychologists' understand their personal experiences of client violence. This is an important and interesting subject for Counselling and Clinical Psychologists as it provides a detailed personal account of the implications of violence upon their personal and professional identity, psychological well being and how they define violence. Furthermore, this research may help facilitate in designing a specific policy and help future research to issue guidelines for counselling and clinical psychologists in order to keep themselves safe within their professional practice. Psychologists working for the National Health Service will be recruited and provided with information regarding the research aims and objectives. There will be interviews held at their place of work for approximately one hour.
Interventions
OTHERInformation Sheet
Providing the Participant with information regarding the aim of the experiment
OTHERConsent
Providing a consent form for participants. The participant is aware of his or her rights
OTHERinterview
participants will interviewed by fardin jussab for approximately one hour regarding their experience of client violence
OTHERDebrief
at the end of each interview the researcher will ask participants whether the emotions aroused in the interview require further discussions. Interviewees will be also advised that should they wish to talk further about any topics covered the in the interview, they could telephone the researcher at a later time. There will also be leaflets of supporting agencies.
Sponsors
University of East London
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
24 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Psychologist's who have experienced client violence
Exclusion criteria
\-
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| experience of violence | one hour | participant's discuss their experince of client violence in the work place |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed