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From Rules to Reflexivity: The Development of Ethical Positioning in Systemic Trainees

Dataset

Description

This dataset contains qualitative interview data collected for the study "From Rules to Reflexivity: The Development of Ethical Positioning in Systemic Trainees". The dataset comprises nine semi-structured interview transcripts generated through peer-research interviews with final-year systemic psychotherapy trainees enrolled on a qualifying training programme at a UK university.

The dataset includes:

*Transcripts from semi-structured interviews of ethical development, exploring how trainees understood and responded to ethical dilemmas during their systemic psychotherapy training.
*Experiences of training influences, including the impact of supervision, group learning, reflecting processes, systemic theory, and institutional cultures on ethical thinking.
*Personal and cultural context variables, capturing discussion of family history, faith, identity, values, lived experience of inequality, and how these shaped ethical positioning.
*Accounts of professional decision-making under uncertainty, including confidence, reflexivity, tolerance of ambiguity, and movement beyond rule-based ethics.
*Researcher reflexive materials, where available, including notes or analytic reflections generated during the reflexive thematic analysis process.
*Derived qualitative coding framework, consisting of themes and subthemes developed through reflexive thematic analysis:
Letting Go of the Rulebook
Who We Are Shapes What We Do
Finding Our Voice in Ethical Uncertainty

Please note this dataset cannot be shared publicly, as it contains sensitive personal disclosures, potentially identifiable professional information, and confidential interview material.
Date made available2026
PublisherJournal of Family Therapy
Date of data production10 Feb 2026

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