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Main Areas of Research Interest

Below are the main areas of SPCP's research, including recent examples of research projects...

Migration, refugees and language

Our research investigates and contributes to the fields of psychotherapy and counselling psychology on migration theory and practice.

Recent projects have investigated:

• The Experience of Being a Refgee; The Experiences of Being an Internationally Mobile Partner;
• Between two worlds – the experience of economic migrants who leave their families in their country of origin;
• Working with Interpreters in Counselling Psychology;
• The Acculturation of Russian Women Immigrants to the UK and Implications for Counselling Psychology;
• Migrant Turkish women; Counselling Psychology and its’ multicultural future: Learning to think culturally;
• The Experience of Being Culturally Different Within the Therapeutic Relationship;
• Migrant Brazilian Homosexuals Living in London; The forgotten refugees of the 1974 invasion of Cyprus;
• The concept of home and its implications when working with migrants in the consulting room.

The Body in Psychotherapy

Research investigates models of understanding how the body communicates in therapy and looks at philosophical and theoretical debates situating the body in time, psychological, economic, social and religious contexts.

Recent projects include:

• The relational world of anorexia nervosa: A phenomenological exploration into the experience of pursued weight loss amongst women;
•  Blushing: A Phenomenon study into Body and Language ;
• Male Perspectives Associated With Being Overweight / Obese;
• Binge Eating in Midlife: An Exploration of Middle Ages Women's Experience of Binge Eating.

Sexuality

Our research investigates perceptions of sexuality, the impact of being rejected due to sexual orientation and how therapists work with sexual issues.

Some projects include:

•  Migrant Brazilian Homosexuals Living in London, implications for sexual identity;
• Asexuality – the lived experience of self-identifying asexual people; Sexual Compulsivity;
• Contemporary Perspectives on Psychotherapy and Homosexualities;
• The experiences of trainee counselling psychologists on the area of sexuality as a taught aspect of training.

Integration in Psychotherapy Theory & Practice

This research stream has been focussing on examining current integrative practices among counselling psychologists and psychotherapists.

Some research includes:

• Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Psychotherapists’ Perception, Understanding and Interpretation of what is Therapeutic in the Psychotherapeutic Encounter in the Horizon of Time;
• Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioural conceptualisations of Medically unexplained symptoms in clients;
• The Integrative Attitude; Researching Psychotherapy Integration: A Heuristic Approach