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21	My journey towards becoming a psychotherapist: an autoethnographic study Richards, Carol Cecilia 31 August 2003 (has links) This autoethnographic study qualitatively explores a trainee's journey towards becoming a clinical psychologist in South Africa. Both the formal and informal processes for becoming a psychotherapist are explored. The formal processes governing the training and registration of a clinical psychologist in South Africa are outlined. A critical appraisal of the training program is covered. The informal processes of the journey of this trainee psychologist is contextualised within the life story of that same person. In so doing a seventeen-year long struggle and academic relationship with UNISA is highlighted, including the insatiable desire and life long dream of the writer in wanting to become a psychologist. An autoethnographic study was done by using the researcher as the only research subject. The personal writings of the researcher and her family serve as the primary data for the study. An autoethnographic approach was employed in creating and collecting the data. The stories are presented in narrative form, and the data are analysed by employing narrative analysis for extracting and highlighting initial and inferred themes. / Psychology / M. A. (Clinical Psychology) Trainer-trainee relationships Trainee development Life stories Mental health in S.A. Autoethnography Supervision Psychotherapy training Clinical psychology training Training universities Theory and practice of training 616.89140715 Internship programs Psychologists -- Training of Tutors and training
22	Clinical training as double bind: explicit and implicit contexts of learning Lloyd, Nina 11 1900 (has links) This study explores trainee psychotherapists' experiences of double bind situations and inconsistency between explicit and implicit contexts of training. The epistemological foundations of this text are postmodern, social constructionist and ecosystemic. A review of the relevant literature is presented, which includes aspects such as explicit and implicit contexts, double bind and experiences of trainees in training. This is followed by an account of the qualitative research approach adopted, namely, discourse analysis. Themes that are extracted from the text of the transcribed interviews are assumed to reflect discourses in training and the broader societal contexts in which trainees find themselves. These discourses are seen to inform trainees' constructions of their experiences in training. The findings of the analysis are found to concur with the initial hypotheses of this dissertation, as well as with findings in the literature. Recommendations for future research are offered. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Discourse analysis Social constructionist Postmodernist Ecosystemic Supervisory relationship Explicit and implicit contexts Double bind Powerlessness Experiences of trainees 616.89140715 Internship programs Psychologists -- Training of Tutors and training Psychotherapy -- Training of Social constructionism Postmodernism -- Psychological aspects Discourse analysis Clinical psychologists -- Training of
23	Differentiation as a double-edged sword Small, Cecilia Sanet 30 June 2003 (has links) Psychology / M.A.(Psychology) No-self Differentiation Integration Boundaries Paradox Developmental model Growth and development Psychotherapy training Supervision 616.89140715 Self-evaluation Internship programs Psychologists -- Training of Tutors and training Tutors and training
24	Training reflections-an ecosystemic exploration. Dlamini, Mavis 30 November 2005 (has links) This study is qualitative in nature. It reflects on the rich and varied experiences I encountered during training to be a psychotherapist. The content and process information around training is explored. My personal biases and prejudices towards training are made explicit. The experiences reflected upon are contextualized within the Unisa academic and the hospital clinical internship training contexts. The two contexts of training are contrasted accordingly showing their epistemological stance in their contribution to training of trainee therapists. The primary data in this research is the trainee researcher who is also the only participant subject in the study. The rest of the data is drawn from the experiences of the subject in interaction with others in different systems and subsystems. Through the creative synthesis step in the heuristic research approach the inferred theme is integrated in the analysis. Finally the research shows the limitations and implications involved. / Psychology / M.A. Psychology Training psychotherapy trainee clinical setting internship psychotherapist approach to theory training context exploration self 616.89140715 Internship programs Psychologists -- Training of Tutors and training -- South Africa Psychotherapy -- Training of
25	Talking sticks and BMW's: ritual, power and authority in a psychotherapy training placement Jansen, Shahieda 01 January 2002 (has links) This study explores trainees' experiences of power dynamics within a ritualised training context, with reference to the three major aspects of the study: training, ritual and power. The psychotherapeutic training took place at Agape, a community-based counselling service in Mamelodi, whose theoretical approach to training included a mixture of postmodern, ecosystemic and African traditions. A substantial literature survey examines the major concepts and issues related to the research subject, such as psychotherapeutic training approaches, the philosophies and theories that may inform training procedures, ritual practices in psychotherapy, and organisational and power aspects of psychotherapeutic training. The research process was executed using the qualitative, interpretive research methodology. A sample of six of the trainees who had completed their training at this placement was interviewed, and two of the trainers. The researcher's reflections on her own training experiences are woven into the material. Using the interview technique and through asking a series of open-ended questions, the researcher obtained an account of the subjective, sacralised training interactions at Agape. Themes were identified that had emerged during the interview process. In brief, the themes referred to trainees' theoretical and practical experiences in the training placement, how they made sense of the sacralised therapeutic experiences, and comments on their relationship with trainers and fellow trainees. The most common theme that emerged was that of power. The end product of this study portrays the trainees' understandings of power within a sacralised psychotherapeutic context and their responses to this. This study makes explicit the links between ritualisation and power within an evaluative psychotherapeutic training context, and the consequences of this for training. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Psychotherapy Ritual Power Psychotherapy clinic Healing Community Trainees Sacralised training ineractions Training placement Theoretical orientation Psychotherapeutic training Therapist's power Trainer-trainee relationship Community African healing paradigm Training institution Community-based counselling service Ecosystemic Sangoma Postmodern Ecology Constructivism 616.89140715 Internship programs Psychologists -- Training of Tutors and training -- South Africa Psychotherapy -- Training of
26	Talking sticks and BMW's: ritual, power and authority in a psychotherapy training placement Jansen, Shahieda 01 January 2002 (has links) This study explores trainees' experiences of power dynamics within a ritualised training context, with reference to the three major aspects of the study: training, ritual and power. The psychotherapeutic training took place at Agape, a community-based counselling service in Mamelodi, whose theoretical approach to training included a mixture of postmodern, ecosystemic and African traditions. A substantial literature survey examines the major concepts and issues related to the research subject, such as psychotherapeutic training approaches, the philosophies and theories that may inform training procedures, ritual practices in psychotherapy, and organisational and power aspects of psychotherapeutic training. The research process was executed using the qualitative, interpretive research methodology. A sample of six of the trainees who had completed their training at this placement was interviewed, and two of the trainers. The researcher's reflections on her own training experiences are woven into the material. Using the interview technique and through asking a series of open-ended questions, the researcher obtained an account of the subjective, sacralised training interactions at Agape. Themes were identified that had emerged during the interview process. In brief, the themes referred to trainees' theoretical and practical experiences in the training placement, how they made sense of the sacralised therapeutic experiences, and comments on their relationship with trainers and fellow trainees. The most common theme that emerged was that of power. The end product of this study portrays the trainees' understandings of power within a sacralised psychotherapeutic context and their responses to this. This study makes explicit the links between ritualisation and power within an evaluative psychotherapeutic training context, and the consequences of this for training. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Psychotherapy Ritual Power Psychotherapy clinic Healing Community Trainees Sacralised training ineractions Training placement Theoretical orientation Psychotherapeutic training Therapist's power Trainer-trainee relationship Community African healing paradigm Training institution Community-based counselling service Ecosystemic Sangoma Postmodern Ecology Constructivism 616.89140715 Internship programs Psychologists -- Training of Tutors and training -- South Africa Psychotherapy -- Training of

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