TY - JOUR
T1 - “It’s about having exposure to this”: investigating the training needs of therapists in relation to the issue of anomalous experiences
AU - Roxburgh, Elizabeth C
AU - Evenden, Rachel
PY - 2016/7/26
Y1 - 2016/7/26
N2 - Two focus groups, consisting of six participants each, were conducted to explore the training needs of therapists when working with clients reporting anomalous experiences (AEs). AEs are those that “depart from our own familiar personal experiences or from the more usual, ordinary, and expected experiences of a given culture and time” (Braud, 2012, p.107). A thematic analysis revealed four themes: ‘Quite often we get taken by surprise because it’s a subject we don’t talk about’, ‘It’s just having this in our vocabulary’, ‘Demystifying and valuing AEs as normal human experiences’, and ‘To ask or not to ask?’. Most of the participants felt that they were unequipped to work with clients reporting AEs and suggestions were made for overcoming this.
AB - Two focus groups, consisting of six participants each, were conducted to explore the training needs of therapists when working with clients reporting anomalous experiences (AEs). AEs are those that “depart from our own familiar personal experiences or from the more usual, ordinary, and expected experiences of a given culture and time” (Braud, 2012, p.107). A thematic analysis revealed four themes: ‘Quite often we get taken by surprise because it’s a subject we don’t talk about’, ‘It’s just having this in our vocabulary’, ‘Demystifying and valuing AEs as normal human experiences’, and ‘To ask or not to ask?’. Most of the participants felt that they were unequipped to work with clients reporting AEs and suggestions were made for overcoming this.
KW - Anomalous experiences
KW - counselling training
KW - focus groups
KW - qualitative methods
KW - students
U2 - 10.1080/03069885.2016.1213375
DO - 10.1080/03069885.2016.1213375
M3 - Article
SN - 0306-9885
JO - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling
JF - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling
ER -