Therapists’ self-reported chronic strategies of disconnection in everyday life and in counselling and psychotherapy: an exploratory study

TY - JOUR

T1 - Therapists’ self-reported chronic strategies of disconnection in everyday life and in counselling and psychotherapy: an exploratory study

AU - Cooper, Mick

AU - Knox, Rosanne

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - The aim of this study was to explore how therapists believe they mayrelationally disconnect from other people and their clients, with anoverall objective of developing methods for enhancing relational depthin counselling and psychotherapy. Participants were 168 trainee andpracticing therapists, who listed their chronic strategies of disconnections(CSoDs) in everyday relationships, and then rated the presence of theseCSoDs in their therapeutic work. Thirty-nine categories of self-reportedeveryday CSoDs emerged, organised into seven domains. Most prevalentwere behavioural, passive and intrapsychic strategies. Over half of theCSoDs were rated as being present in therapy to a minimal extent, mostcommonly passive CSoDs, disingenuous CSoDs and humour. Maletherapists, and trainee therapists, were most likely to identify theirCSoDs as present in therapy.© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The attached document (embargoed until 28/06/2018) is an author produced version of a paper published in the British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03069885.2017.1343457. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

AB - The aim of this study was to explore how therapists believe they mayrelationally disconnect from other people and their clients, with anoverall objective of developing methods for enhancing relational depthin counselling and psychotherapy. Participants were 168 trainee andpracticing therapists, who listed their chronic strategies of disconnections(CSoDs) in everyday relationships, and then rated the presence of theseCSoDs in their therapeutic work. Thirty-nine categories of self-reportedeveryday CSoDs emerged, organised into seven domains. Most prevalentwere behavioural, passive and intrapsychic strategies. Over half of theCSoDs were rated as being present in therapy to a minimal extent, mostcommonly passive CSoDs, disingenuous CSoDs and humour. Maletherapists, and trainee therapists, were most likely to identify theirCSoDs as present in therapy.© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The attached document (embargoed until 28/06/2018) is an author produced version of a paper published in the British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03069885.2017.1343457. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

U2 - 10.1080/03069885.2017.1343457

DO - 10.1080/03069885.2017.1343457

M3 - Article

SN - 0306-9885

VL - 46

SP - 185

EP - 200

JO - BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING

JF - BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING

IS - 2

ER -