Standards of healthcare exist to promote beneficent treatment; however, treatment approaches are sometimes not supported by research, creating potential ethical issues for clinicians expected to use evidence-based practices. For example, walk-and-talk therapy, where therapy sessions incorporate physical activity in an outdoor setting, is being offered at increasing rates, but research regarding the practice is sparse and primarily reflects the therapists' experiences. Thus, the purpose of this interpretative phenomenological analytic study was to explore the clients' experience of the altered frame of walk-and-talk therapy through the conceptual lenses of therapeutic frame and the biopsychosocial model of well-being. Data were collected through in-depth, semistructured interviews with a sample of three former walk-and-talk therapy clients, and data were analyzed using the modified van Kaam method. Findings included that the clients' experience of walk-and-talk therapy was shaped by prior therapy experiences with participants reporting concerns and benefits related to the altered frame. Clients found walk-and-talk equally or more therapeutic than traditional therapy and felt walk-and-talk could be a less stigmatizing therapeutic alternative for individuals who find traditional, indoor therapy unappealing. Implications for social change include shaping standard practices of walk-and-talk therapy, thus informing the future of training and supervision as well as providing an alternative therapeutic offering for individuals who find traditional, indoor therapy unappealing.

Inledning: Psykoterapeutisk ram är ett fenomen som är grundläggande att upprätta under terapeututbildning. Vad psykoterapeutstudenter faktiskt uppfattar och kan beskriva utgör en kvalitetssäkring av vad studenter uppfattar behövs i form av ram i förhållande till patienter men också i förhållande till utbildningssituationen. Att jämföra med rådande teori och empiri. Syftet med studien var att låta psykoterapeutstudenter beskriva sin uppfattning om vad som konstituerar fenomenet ram i psykodynamisk terapi. Frågeställningar: Vad uppfattar och beskriver psykoterapeutstudenter som psykodynamisk terapeutisk ram? Metod: Föreliggande studie har en hermeneutisk ansats och bearbetningsmetod är kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Datainsamlingsmetod är intervjuer. Resultat: Resultatet av frågeställningen visar sig som tre kategorier med underkategorier. Kategori ett är kär-lek, med underkategorier som ansvar och mellanmänsklighet. Kategori två är medvetenhet, med underkategorier som fysiska budskap, kontinuitet och omdöme. Kategori tre är potential, med underkategorier som symbolisera och integrera. Diskussion: Vad psykoterapeutstudenter beskriver som konstanter i psykodynamisk terapeutisk ram harmonierar framförallt med det som i litteratur och forskning beskrivs som inre- och yttre -ram. Resultatet har få konstanter i form av meta ram vilket kan förstås som att det finns en omedvetenhet i att upprätta meta ram. I förlängningen begränsar denna omedvetenhet studenters påverkan på utbildning och profession. / Introduction: Psychotherapeutic frame is a phenomenon which is fundamental to establish during therapist education. What psychotherapists students actually understand and can describe constitute a quality assurance of what students perceive is needed in form of frame, in relation to the patients but also in relation to the educational situation. To be compared with the prevailing theory and empiricism. The aim of the study was to let psychotherapist students describe their idea of what constitutes the phenomenon frame of psychodynamic therapy. Issues: What perceive and describe psychotherapist students as psychodynamic therapeutic frame? Method: This study has a hermeneutical approach and processing method is qualitative content analysis. The data collection method is interviews. Results: The result of the issue manifests as three categories with subcategories. Category one is love-play, with subcategories as responsibility and interpersonal. Category two is awareness, with subcategories as physical messages, continuity and opinion. Category three is potential, with subcategories as symbolize and integrate. Discussion: What psychotherapist students describe as constants in psychodynamic therapeutic frame, harmony above all with what the literature and research describes as inner and outer frame. The result has few constants in the form of meta- framework, which may be understood as that there is a lack of awareness in establishing meta- frame. In the extension this unawareness limits students influence on education and profession.