Scottish Society for Psychotherapy Research

Professor Robert Elliott is giving this year’s Mary Kilborn Lecture, marking their retirement as Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde. This free lecture will take place on Thursday 12 May (6.30pm British Summer Time) and will be hybrid for the first time.

Follow this link for more details & to register (in person or online): https://www.engage.strath.ac.uk/event/949

Engage: Event This event brings together therapists and students from the psychotherapy and wider therapeutic community. The event will present the retiral lecture of Professor Robert Elliott, a leading figure from the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy, which focuses on the core learning from his life.....

At the March meeting of the Scottish SPR, Robert Elliott and Susan Stephen presented the results of the Personal Questionnaire Classification study, a group project involving students working in the Strathclyde Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Clinic. Robert and Susan are pictured here with Elizabeth Riddell, one of the team; other members of the team (Lloyd Cheng, Katie Miller-Cole and Vicky Hagman) are pictured in the background photograph.

At the February meeting of the Scottish SPR, Catherine Cowie presented a comparison of the findings of the 2006 and 2015 surveys of the Person-Centred Approach in Scotland.

Dr Zoe Chouliara of Edinburgh Napier University presented her research (Interpersonal Trust: A catalyst for physical and psychological wellbeing?) at the January meeting of the Scottish SPR.

Caren Christie presented her MSc research study on Foundational Factors Enabling Moments of Relational Depth at the December meeting of the Scottish SPR.

The time of Scottish SPR meetings has changed: we are now meeting at the earlier time of 6 - 7pm, usually on the 3rd Thursday of the month.

We meet at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow city centre: Room LT508, Livingstone Tower, George Street.

Come along if you are interested in learning about new counselling and psychotherapy research being conducted by practitioner-researchers based or studying in Scotland.

Future meeting dates in 2016-17: 15th December 2016, 19th January 2017, 16th February 2017, 16th March 2017, 20th April, 25th May 2017, 15th June 2017.

At the Scottish SPR meeting in November 2016, Thalia Nicolaou presented results from her PhD study of "The personal presenting meaning of physical and psychological symptoms: Their function and implication for therapy".

In October 2016 the Scottish SPR speaker was Rhonda Gillespie who presented the results of her MSc investigation: Measuring the usefulness of photographic metaphor in brief PCE therapy.

At the Scottish SPR meeting in September 2016, Lisa McGilvray presented the results of her MSc study into "Clients' expectations of a forthcoming counselling session analysed by gender, age, previous experience of counselling & method of referral".

RESCHEDULED:
• Next Meeting: Thursday 18 April 2013, 8.00 - 9.00pm
• Location: Graham Hills Building, GH511 (enter by 40 George Street or 40 Richmond Street)
• Speaker: Katie McArthur, U of Strathclyde PhD student
• Title: School-based Humanistic Counselling: Outcome and Process Research
• Preceded by Research Community meeting 5.30 - 7.30pm and social (half) hour 7.30 - 8pm.
• All welcome. Bring your curiosity!

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Katie McArthur's presentation for this Thursday 21 March 2013, 8.00 - 9.00pm has been cancelled due to a bereavement; it will be rescheduled for 18 April 2013:

• Next Meeting: Thursday 21 February 2013, 8.00 - 9.00pm
• Location: Graham Hills Building, GH511 (enter by 40 George Street or 40 Richmond Street)
• Speaker: Catherine Ryan, U of Strathclyde MSc student
• Title: Client Perceptions of Unhelpful Aspects of Person-Centred-Experiential Therapy for Social Anxiety
• Preceded by Research Community meeting 5.30 - 7.30pm and social (half) hour 7.30 - 8pm.
• All welcome. Bring your curiosity!

The next meeting is on Thursday 15th November: Graham Hills Building, GH511

5.30pm - 7.30pm - Research Community meeting. Facilitator: Catherine Cowie

8.00pm - 9.00pm - Speaker: Patricia Joyce: Outcomes of young persons addictions counselling

We are accepting proposals for speakers for this year's Scottish SPR series. Have you done a piece of counselling or psychotherapy research that you'd like to present at one of our monthly thursday evening meetings this year? Please post a proposal or suggestion here, or contact Robert Elliott or Amanda Barge.

Next Meeting: Thursday 19th January 2012: Graham Hills Building, GH511, 8.00 - 9.00pm:
Azizah Abdullah, University of Strathclyde: Person-Centred Creative Practice with Children and Young People

Next Meeting: Thursday 15th September 2011: Graham Hills Building, GH511, 8.00 - 9.00pm:
Isabel Sarle, University of Strathclyde: Clients' Experiences of Significant Silences in Psychotherapy

Scottish SPR dates have been posted for the 2011-12 year, beginning on 15 September. We are now taking submissions for Scottish SPR Speakers for 2011-12. Please contact Jane Balmforth or Robert Elliott.

Next Meeting: 7:30 - 9pm, Thurs 21 April, Room 510 Graham Hills Building:

John McLeod, University of Abertay: Two papers on qualitative research and learning in counselling/psychotherapy.

Denis O'Hara, University of Abertay, The Relationship between Counsellors’ Hope, Self Differentiation, and Epistemic Style.

The meeting will be preceded by an informal social time 7.00 - 7.30.

The meeting scheduled for 8pm Thursday 17 March has been cancelled due to scheduling issues. The next meeting on 21 April will feature two speakers:

John McLeod, and Denis O'Hara both of the University of Abertay Dundee.

More details will be forthcoming

Next Meeting: 8 - 9pm, Thurs 17 February, Room 510 Graham Hills Building:

Gary Mooney, MSc, University of Strathclyde, & St Andrews Hospice, Bereavement: Findings From An Emotion Scheme Analysis.

The meeting will be preceded by an informal social time 7.30 - 8pm.

Please note 40 George Street is often locked at 6pm, but entrances at 50 George Street and Richmond St (at the back) are open till 9pm.

Next Meeting: 8 - 9pm, Thurs 21 October, Room P513 Graham Hills Building:

Dr Brian Rodgers, University of Strathclyde, Life Space Mapping.

The meeting will be preceded by an informal social time 7.30 - 8pm.
Entrances at 50 George Street & Richmond St (at the back) are open till 9pm.

(This presentation has been moved forward from November)

Meeting Schedule for 2010-2011
Meetings are every third Thursday in the month (from 16th Sept) and begin at 5.30pm (all dates on notes pages).

Building: Graham Hills Bulding, John Anderson campus, city centre Glasgow

Room: Number 513 up until Christmas then 510 from January onwards.

Next Meeting: Thurs 10th June, Room P510 Graham Hills Building: Susan Cornforth (University of Strathclyde): Adjudicated Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design
Study of Person-Centred Therapy for Social Anxiety. The meeting will be preceded by an informal
social time 7.30 - 8pm. Please note 40 George Street is often locked at
6pm, but entrances at 50 George Street &
Richmond St (at the back) are open till 9pm.

Thurs 20th May, The usual SPR meeting is not
taking place on the 20th May as there is a Mary Kilborn Lecture at
Jordanhill at 6.30pm - 9 pm in the Henry Wood Lecture Theatre (W013)
given by Elke Lambers (Whose Problem is it: Understanding Disturbance as
a Challange in a Relationship). However there will be some time set
aside before the lecture at 5.00 for an hours community meeting (room
tbc).

RESCHEDULED: Thursday 29th April 8-9pm, Graham Hills Building 40 & 50 George Street, Room P510. Prof. Kate Davidson, University of Glasgow: Are we making progress with borderline personality disorder? The meeting will be preceded by an informal social time 7.30 - 8pm. Please note 40 George Street is often locked at 6pm, but entrances at 50 George Street and Richmond St (at the back) are open till 9pm.

Next academic year, Scottish SPR meetings will be the third Thursday of each month, starting 16 September 2010, 8 - 9 pm. Please let us know whether you think should continue holding them in the Graham Hills Building, in the Glasgow city centre, as we have been doing, or if we should move them to the Jordanhill campus of the University of Strathclyde. Yea or nay?

Next Meeting Thurs 18th March Room 510 Graham Hills Building. Facilitator: Catherine Ryan SPR Speaker(s): Pam Courcha (University of Strathclyde): Training home carers in contact reflections: a dialogical approach using collaborative enquiry - PLEASE NOTE THIS PRESENTATION HAS BEEN POSTPONED

Next Meeting: 8pm 14th January 2010 (University of Strathclyde, Graham Hills Building Room P510): Sue Wiggins (PhD student, University of Strathclyde): New Research Findings with the Relational Depth Inventory

Next meeting: 8pm 3rd Dec 2009 (University of Strathclyde, Graham Hills Building Room P513): Kate Davidson (University of Glasgow): Are we making progress with borderline personality disorder? CANCELLED: PLEASE NOTE KATE DAVIDSON CANNOT NOW MAKE THE MEETING DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE