NCT01414543

Psychologists' Lived Experience of Client Violence

Counselling and Clinical Psychologists Lived Experience of Client Violence

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of East London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 24 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Life Experiences

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Information Sheet	Providing the Participant with information regarding the aim of the experiment
OTHER	Consent	Providing a consent form for participants. The participant is aware of his or her rights
OTHER	interview	participants will interviewed by fardin jussab for approximately one hour regarding their experience of client violence
OTHER	Debrief	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-10-01
• Primary completion: 2012-10-01
• Completion: 2012-10-01
• First posted: 2011-08-11
• Last updated: 2016-05-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom