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Journal Title :
European Journal Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy
(lead) Editor :
Nollaig Frost
The mission of the European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy (EJQRP) is to provide an accessible forum for research that advances the theory and practice of psychotherapy and supports practitioner-led research.
We, the Editorial Team, appreciate the limitations that currently govern opportunities for research and academic scholarship, including restricted access to international academic research journals. The hope is that the freely available, online format will help make research more widely available to practitioners.
Editorial Staff
Editorial Team
Nollaig Frost – Editor-in-Chief
University College Cork, Ireland
Peter Blundell – Production Editor
Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Alan McPherson – Review Manager
Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute, Nottingham, UK; Private Practice, Leicester, UK
Maaria Koivisto – Copy Editor
Private practice, Helsinki, Finland
Frances Bassett – Values Advisor (decolonisation)
Metanoia Institute, London, UK
Marie Adams
Private practice, Exeter and Lyme Regis, UK
Julianne Appel-Opper
Private Practice, Berlin, Germany
Zoë Boden-Stuart
University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
Divine Charura
York St John University, York, UK
Kay Conroy
Turning Point Institute, Dublin, Ireland
Linda Finlay
The Open University, UK; Private Practice, York, UK
Marco Gemignani
Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Seville, Spain
Steen Halling
Seattle University, Seattle, US
Isabel Henton
University of Roehampton, London, UK
Joanna Hewitt-Evans
Private Practice, Leicester, UK
Urban Kordeš
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Lennart Lorås
Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Bergen, Norway
Maria Luca
Regent's University, London, UK
Alistair McBeath
Metanoia Institute, London, UK
John McLeod
Institute for Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, Dublin, Ireland; Abertay University, Scotland, UK
Claire Mitchell
Private Practice, St Helier, Jersey, UK
Ottar Ness
Norges Teknisk-naturvitenskaplige Universitet, Trondheim, Norway
Charlie O'Brien
Private Practice, Leeds, UK
Gerhard Payrhuber
Private Practice, London, UK
Vesna Petrović
Union University, Novi Sad, Serbia
Oana Maria Popescu
Ass. of Integrative Research, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Timiş, Romania
Tomáš Řiháček
Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
Jan Roubal
Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
Salma Siddique
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Andrew Smith
Regent's University, London, UK
Daniel Sousa
ISPA University Clinic, Lisboa, Portugal
Bruno Van den Bosch
Educatieve Academie, Antwerp, Belgium
Loredana-Ileana Vîșcu
Prorector Universitatea "Tibiscus" din Timişoara; Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counselling and Clinical Supervision (IPCS), Romania
Eve Watson
IICP College, Dublin, Rep of Ireland
Heward Wilkinson
SCPTI, Scarborough; Private Practice, Scarborough, UK
Gregor Žvelc
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Maša Žvelc
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
We celebrate our qualitative values of being open and inclusive by welcoming all forms of qualitative research and respecting diverse approaches and understandings. We are mindful of the many cultures and languages within Europe and we appreciate the challenge of writing in English when it is not the author’s first language. We encourage authors to submit parts of their research (abstract, data set, summary of findings, appendices) in the authors' first language if that is helpful. Extra support with writing and editing is available to all authors, particularly if English is not the author's first language. However, it is recommended that authors seek their own editing support to ensure clarity of content prior to submission.
The journal offers a space for any qualitative research which aims to explore psychotherapeutic practice, whether in Europe or further afield. We welcome contributions from different methodological and theoretical standpoints, as well as relevant literature reviews, critical explorations of methodology and philosophical research. Submissions of qualitative empirical research or reflective/creative examples are particularly encouraged towards evolving a robust pool of 'practice-based evidence'.
We wish to encourage dialogue and debate within our relatively young profession. As we see it, this involves not only exploring the richness of psychotherapy practice but also supporting and challenging one another. To this end, the Editorial Team will try to make themselves available to positively encourage a new generation of writers/researchers to share their research experience. If you have an idea for a possible article but you are unsure about how to proceed, please feel free to contact us.
We celebrate our qualitative values of being open and inclusive by welcoming all forms of qualitative research and respecting diverse approaches and understandings. We are mindful of the many cultures and languages within Europe and we appreciate the challenge of writing in English when it is not the author’s first language. We encourage authors to submit parts of their research (abstract, data set, summary of findings, appendices) in the authors' first language if that is helpful. Extra support with writing and editing is available to all authors, particularly if English is not the author's first language. However, it is recommended that authors seek their own editing support to ensure clarity of content prior to submission.
The journal offers a space for any qualitative research which aims to explore psychotherapeutic practice, whether in Europe or further afield. We welcome contributions from different methodological and theoretical standpoints, as well as relevant literature reviews, critical explorations of methodology and philosophical research. Submissions of qualitative empirical research or reflective/creative examples are particularly encouraged towards evolving a robust pool of 'practice-based evidence'.
We wish to encourage dialogue and debate within our relatively young profession. As we see it, this involves not only exploring the richness of psychotherapy practice but also supporting and challenging one another. To this end, the Editorial Team will try to make themselves available to positively encourage a new generation of writers/researchers to share their research experience. If you have an idea for a possible article but you are unsure about how to proceed, please feel free to contact us.
Publications in this Library
Being seduced: Trainee therapists' reactions to and handling of client sexual attraction in therapy
Abstract: This study explored how trainee therapists react to and handle client sexual attraction (SA) in their work. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 volunteer trainees of counselling psychology and psychotherapy who responded to an advert. Transcripts were analysed using constructivist grounded theory (GT). The conceptual stages developed highlight the difficulties trainees experience in relation to client sexual attraction: conflicting feelings and anxious professional beliefs encapsulated in moralistic reactions, culminating in defensive handling of sexual attraction. These psychological conditions seem to be a strategy for professional survival. The trainee experience is captured in the core category: Moralistic Responses to Sexual Attraction and Defensive Handling, associated with a climate of fear that client sexual attraction could potentially influence the therapist into behaving unethically. The study found that trainees believe that professionalism is free of sexual feelings whether these are client, therapist or mutual.