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Dr Elaine Kasket

Visiting Lecturer

Contact at: kaskete@regents.ac.uk

Department

School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology

Faculty

HASS (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences)

Professional affiliation(s):

• American Psychological Association – International Affiliate
• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy – Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist (first accredited 10/2005)
• British Psychological Society – Chartered Psychologist and Full Member of the Counselling Psychology Division (chartered 05/2008)
• Health Professions Council – Registered Counselling Psychologist
• United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy – Registered Psychotherapist (Experiential Constructivist Section, via the Society for Existential Analysis) (first registered 11/2006)
• United Kingdom Register of Counsellors – Registered Independent Counsellor
• Society for Existential Analysis – Member since 1999
• Phi Beta Kappa (USA) – Elected in 1988

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education
  London Metropolitan University, E1 7NT, 2009
• Psy.D., Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology, GPA 3.92/4.0
  (degree accredited by the American Psychological Association)
  Illinois School of Professional Psychology/Argosy University, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2005
• M.A., Psychotherapy and Counselling, with Distinction
  (degree validated by City University), Regent’s College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 2002
• B.A. Honors, with Distinction
  Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
  Majors: Psychology, Journalism (Magazine Editing track) 
  Minor:  Art History, 1992

Biography

Elaine is a Visiting Lecturer and has taught on various programmes at Regent's SPCP; currently her main role there is academic supervision. She is a Registered Counselling Psychologist, chartered by the BPS, and a UKCP-registered and BACP-accredited psychotherapist.  In addition to her work at Regent's, she is a Senior Lecturer on the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at London Metropolitan University, serves as an external examiner for multiple Counselling Psychology and psychotherapy programmes, provides clinical supervision for trainees, and has a private psychotherapy practice.  She is research active in the areas of Counselling Psychology professional identity and technologically mediated mourning and memorialisation practices.

PhD and Doctoral Research Supervision and Examining

• Supervision of three successfully completed doctorates
• External examination of four doctorates (one ProfDoc in Counselling Psychology; two Doctorates in Psychotherapy by Professional Studies; one Doctorate in Psychotherapy by Public Works)
• Internal examination of eight doctorates (all ProfDocs in Counselling Psychology)

Research Interests

• Kasket, E., & Gil-Rodriguez, E. (2011).  The identity crisis in trainee Counselling Psychology research, and what to do about it.  To present at 2011 BPS Division of Counselling Psychology conference and to publish in October 2011 methodology issue of Counselling Psychology Review.
• Organiser and convenor of symposium for 2011 BPS Division of Counselling Psychology conference, “Who am I and why am I here?:  Professional identity and Counselling Psychology training.”  Bristol, July 2011.
• Kasket, E. (2011).  Motivations and (mis)perceptions in applicants seeking training in Counselling Psychology.  In preparation for presentation at 2011 BPS Division of Counselling Psychology conference and writing up for publication.
• Kasket, E. (2011).  Continuing bonds and spiritualistic beliefs in the age of social networking:  Facebook as a modern-day medium.  To present at the Death and Dying in the Digital Age 2011 conference, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath.
• Kasket, E. (2011).  Continuing bonds in the age of social networking.  To present at the 10th International Conference of the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
• Kasket, E. (2011).  Bereavement counsellors’ awareness and perceptions of technologically-mediated mourning and memorialisation.  In preparation.

List of Publications

•  Kasket, E. & Gil-Rodriguez, E. (2011).  The identity crisis in trainee Counselling Psychology Research, and what to do about it.  Counselling Psychology Review, in press.
• Kasket, E. (2006).  Death and the doctor: Part II.  Existential Analysis, 17(2), 385-396.
• Kasket, E. (2006).  Death and the doctor.  Existential Analysis, 17(1), 137-150
•  Kasket, E. (2003).  Online counselling: Some considerations for existential-phenomenological practitioners.