This study explored the application of the counselling
technique called Focusing, with three subjects each attending
four counselling sessions.
A background view of Focusing identified major contributions
from existential, experiential and transpersonal fields of
psychology associated with the phenomenological school of
counselling therapy.
Naturalistic inquiry was used as a method to devise a
cumulative exploration of self-acceptance and experiencing.
The Focusing technique, first devised by Eugene Gendlin in
the 1960's, was modified prior to the main study and then
implemented as a combined counselling/training
intervention. A grounded theory procedure provided the basis
of a qualitative methodological examination for the study and
triangulation was effected using quantitative instruments to
examine an empirical outcome of the intervention for selfacceptance.
The Focusing intervention was developed as a prepared script
elicited by the researcher, followed by unstructured debriefing
which included embedded questions about acceptance of self
and the subject's process of experiencing during the
intervention.
Prior to commencement of the study, the researcher held
some ideas but no preconceived assumptions about the
outcome of the intervention in terms of its effect upon subject
self-acceptance and experiencing.
Upon analysis of the quantitative and qualitative results, it
was concluded that exposure to a counselling process such as
Focusing affects openness to and awareness of potential
breadth, depth and expression of individual experiencing.
Empirical measures of self-acceptance produced inconclusive
results in pre- and post-testing, being more adequately
explored in the outcomes of qualitative analyses. During the
course of the study, five innovative methods of investigation
were utilised and found to be suitable for further development
towards future research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/218792 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Creators | Broda, Juliana, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Juliana Broda |
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