Counseling and Psychology Student Experiences of Personal Therapy: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis.
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SUBMITTER: Edwards J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6160903 | biostudies-literature | 2018
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Counseling and Psychology Student Experiences of Personal Therapy: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis.
Frontiers in psychology 20180921
<b>Background:</b> Committing to attendance at personal therapy sessions is frequently either mandated or encouraged in many different types of therapeutic trainings across allied health, psychotherapy, social work and counseling. The small number of published accounts have indicated that student experiences of personal therapy can be mixed. <b>Methods:</b> The project examined contemporary interview based research about student experience of personal therapy during training using Critical Inter ...[more]
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