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Papers by Elizabeth Day
Routledge eBooks, Jun 16, 2023
My engagement with this text, as with most texts, commenced from the back. I felt reassured to fi... more My engagement with this text, as with most texts, commenced from the back. I felt reassured to find in the index trusted thinkers such as Foucault and Rorty, and systems for working with the 'self' experience such as Buddhism, along with current and classic thinker-practitioners: Alice Miller, Irvin Yalom, Karen Horney, Babette Rothschild; also Ainsworth, Berg, Rogers, Wilber, White. This, I inferred, was a text that pays its dues. I was mildly disappointed, however, to find no Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty. This omission is not unusual in counselling and therapy texts, though (of which more, later). I enjoyed the implicit irony in index entries such as 'complainants, see client' and 'there and then, see here and now'. And the fact that there were many more references in the index to 'silence' than to 'minimal encouragers' satisfied me that this was not merely a how-to guide, but a text grounded in its disciplinary roots. The authors declare this a text intended for first-year counselling and therapy trainees. The title signifies its emphasis (safety) on the training and therapeutic relationship, and the topic sequence takes students through the development of a holding capacity, to exploring (deepening) issues, using techniques (fix v re-parent), challenging the client, coaching, and ending.
Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, May 29, 2021
BackgroundThe current study explores counsellors’ experiences of their integration of mindfulness... more BackgroundThe current study explores counsellors’ experiences of their integration of mindfulness into the treatment of their clients for depression and anxiety.MethodFive counsellors participated in semi‐structured interviews, which were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis to identify how the use of mindfulness in therapy was experienced and understood by participants.ResultsThe analysis produced six themes: the benefits of mindfulness for clients, the client's role in the success of mindfulness, the integrity of practice, using mindfulness in therapy, mindfulness techniques and the responsibility of a mindfulness practitioner. A description of these themes and related subordinate themes is presented, with analysis of the findings in relation to the literature.RecommendationsPractice implications include that present‐moment awareness is the cornerstone of mindfulness and that this can be practised and taught; that a counsellor's establishment of a personal mindfulness practice significantly supports their effective integration of mindfulness interventions in the clinical space; and that a client's sustained practice of mindfulness beyond the clinical space is indicative of a reduction of the frequency and intensity of depressive and anxious symptomology.The level of a counsellor's training and experience in mindfulness is found to be an important factor in the effectiveness of the use of mindfulness as a clinical intervention. This supports a case at policy level for the uptake of a mindfulness competencies framework for counselling trainees—including minimum duration of personal practice—in the service of greater consistency and accountability in the delivery of mindfulness techniques in the clinical space.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Feb 5, 2015
This article addresses the basis for the centrality of the therapeutic relationship in effective ... more This article addresses the basis for the centrality of the therapeutic relationship in effective therapeutic outcomes, especially as distinct from technique, which prevails in the 21st-century Australian mental health context as a focus in determining what constitutes evidence-based practice. Presence-oriented therapeutic approaches infer an intersubjective field within which transformative enquiry can occur. This forms the basis of the article’s exploration of the function of the phenomenon of the “field” for intersubjective therapeutic relationship and its relationship to Levinas’ “third” as the basis for transformative, ethical, therapeutic practice. Work on “fields,” in different disciplinary domains that share a focus on understanding underlying processes and patterns of physical and social organization, yields sufficient common ground to speak of a field as a substantive principle on which to base practice. Relational Gestalt psychotherapy has developed the concept of field sufficiently to have evolved principles for working with the felt effects of the field, without firm resolve yet as to the ontological status of relational fields. Paradigmatically the work remains emergent in most disciplines. Further transdisciplinary research into field theory may yield more nuanced analysis of how to work intentionally with field conditions.
Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia, Jul 1, 2015
Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 2021
BackgroundThe current study explores counsellors’ experiences of their integration of mindfulness... more BackgroundThe current study explores counsellors’ experiences of their integration of mindfulness into the treatment of their clients for depression and anxiety.MethodFive counsellors participated in semi‐structured interviews, which were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis to identify how the use of mindfulness in therapy was experienced and understood by participants.ResultsThe analysis produced six themes: the benefits of mindfulness for clients, the client's role in the success of mindfulness, the integrity of practice, using mindfulness in therapy, mindfulness techniques and the responsibility of a mindfulness practitioner. A description of these themes and related subordinate themes is presented, with analysis of the findings in relation to the literature.RecommendationsPractice implications include that present‐moment awareness is the cornerstone of mindfulness and that this can be practised and taught; that a counsellor's establishment of a person...
Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia
This article comprises reflections by nine members of the editorial board of the Psychotherapy an... more This article comprises reflections by nine members of the editorial board of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia (PACJA) on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, encompassing the personal, the professional, and the political.
Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia
During lockdown in response to COVID-19, students in the Master of Psychotherapy at Auckland Univ... more During lockdown in response to COVID-19, students in the Master of Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology were required to rapidly move their clinical work online. We surveyed these students about their experience of working clinically online. We used a mixed-methods approach and analysed qualitative data using grounded theory methods. Students found the move online challenging in terms of the technological challenges, lack of professional clinical space, and establishing and maintaining the therapeutic alliance. Students showed a strong preference for in-person (or, face-to-face) clinical work, along with scepticism about the efficacy of online therapy, though some acknowledged its convenience and others its currency and relevance. Most expressed a need for more specific training in online therapy. The literature finds equivalence between the effectiveness of in-person and online therapy. However, it acknowledges that online therapy can impose increased strain on clinic...
Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia
The aim of the 2020 workforce survey was to profile professionals affiliated with the Psychothera... more The aim of the 2020 workforce survey was to profile professionals affiliated with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) to inform future policy and service planning. PACFA is a national peak body for Australian counsellors and psychotherapists, representing 3,500 members across all states and territories. This study builds on previous workforce studies, the first of which was conducted in 2004. An online questionnaire was circulated to PACFA members covering participants’ demographics, qualifications, employment, sources of client referrals, client groups and presentations, along with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting previous findings, participants predominantly identified as female, as coming from Australian or English backgrounds, and as being located in or around major cities. Notably, a higher proportion of counsellors and psychotherapists than psychologists and psychiatrists (who also have qualifications as counsellors or psychotherapi...
Postmodern debate around subjectivity in the latter half of the twentieth century formed the inte... more Postmodern debate around subjectivity in the latter half of the twentieth century formed the intellectual basis for decentring the subject. Yet in most fields of cultural production the subject remains grounded in tlic dualistic and hierarchised sex/gender system. I argue that practices of reading and reception support the persistence of what Foucault has termed this "'interplay of truth and sex". To articulate subjects free from the subject-object relations of the sex/gender system requires a new model for conceiving and reading the subject. To this end I offer in this thesis a critique of current theories around sex and gender, intersubjectivity as a new model for articulating subjectivity, and a close reading of Virginia Woolf s Orlando: a biography as a literary practice of intersubjectivity. Taking reading practices for my mode and object of analysis I advance an interdisciplinary dialogue, across a diverse range of material, to make connections and offer insights that exceed the boundaries of the specific disciplines. '° This particular survey was conducted by Richard Docter, whose name begs the question of his corrective intentions toward transvestite men. i ' 4 This recourse to formalism to express new "truths" methodologically links the projects of quantum, Woolf and, by definition, Russian Formalism. .
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021
During the 2020 lockdown in response to COVID-19, students in the Master of Psychotherapy at the ... more During the 2020 lockdown in response to COVID-19, students in the Master of Psychotherapy at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) were required to rapidly move their clinical work online. We surveyed these students about their experience of working clinically online. We used a mixed-methods approach and analysed qualitative data using grounded theory methods. Students found the move online difficult, with technological challenges, the loss of a professional clinical space, and having to establish and maintain the therapeutic alliance in the unfamiliar online setting. They showed a strong preference for in-person clinical work, along with scepticism about the efficacy of online therapy, though some acknowledged its convenience and others its currency and relevance. Most expressed a need for more specific training in online therapy. Students rated their technological skill level higher than their levels of interest in online communication. This suggests that preferences, rather...
Journal of International Women's Studies, 2001
Setting an alternative research agenda Research by Luebke and Reilly and by Stearns (1994) into t... more Setting an alternative research agenda Research by Luebke and Reilly and by Stearns (1994) into the post-graduation career paths of Women's Studies students in the United States confirmed what practitioners have This journal and its contents may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.
Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science, 2021
An integrative literature review was undertaken as a means of drawing together contemporary persp... more An integrative literature review was undertaken as a means of drawing together contemporary perspectives on the outcomes and affordances of videoconference-based therapy. This review was conducted in a way which placed emphasis on the need for mental healthcare strategies which are mindful of the cultural and social needs of indigenous and ethnic minority populations, particularly those situated in the Global South. The review was undertaken using an inverse funnelling approach which sought to prioritise literature on videoconference-based therapy literature which specifically focused on indigenous and ethnic minority populations. A series of general and population specific searches across relevant health databases were supplemented by a simultaneous search of Google Scholar. The PICOS search tool was used in developing the search terms, and data was processed using an inductive approach to thematic analysis. A final dataset of 43 articles were included in the review. This body of l...
This paper uses developmental and philosophical notions derived from the work of de Beauvior, Can... more This paper uses developmental and philosophical notions derived from the work of de Beauvior, Canguilhem, Foucault, Rose, Butler and others to build a theory of what happens to the sense of self of young men in prison, and establishes a connection between the experience of imprisonment and men's violence towards women. It is the second in a series exploring the development of a criminal indentity as a consequence of criminal justice systems, particularly imprisonment, which are designed to cope with the behaviour resulting from criminal identity, in an endless loop.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 16, 2023
My engagement with this text, as with most texts, commenced from the back. I felt reassured to fi... more My engagement with this text, as with most texts, commenced from the back. I felt reassured to find in the index trusted thinkers such as Foucault and Rorty, and systems for working with the 'self' experience such as Buddhism, along with current and classic thinker-practitioners: Alice Miller, Irvin Yalom, Karen Horney, Babette Rothschild; also Ainsworth, Berg, Rogers, Wilber, White. This, I inferred, was a text that pays its dues. I was mildly disappointed, however, to find no Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty. This omission is not unusual in counselling and therapy texts, though (of which more, later). I enjoyed the implicit irony in index entries such as 'complainants, see client' and 'there and then, see here and now'. And the fact that there were many more references in the index to 'silence' than to 'minimal encouragers' satisfied me that this was not merely a how-to guide, but a text grounded in its disciplinary roots. The authors declare this a text intended for first-year counselling and therapy trainees. The title signifies its emphasis (safety) on the training and therapeutic relationship, and the topic sequence takes students through the development of a holding capacity, to exploring (deepening) issues, using techniques (fix v re-parent), challenging the client, coaching, and ending.
Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, May 29, 2021
BackgroundThe current study explores counsellors’ experiences of their integration of mindfulness... more BackgroundThe current study explores counsellors’ experiences of their integration of mindfulness into the treatment of their clients for depression and anxiety.MethodFive counsellors participated in semi‐structured interviews, which were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis to identify how the use of mindfulness in therapy was experienced and understood by participants.ResultsThe analysis produced six themes: the benefits of mindfulness for clients, the client's role in the success of mindfulness, the integrity of practice, using mindfulness in therapy, mindfulness techniques and the responsibility of a mindfulness practitioner. A description of these themes and related subordinate themes is presented, with analysis of the findings in relation to the literature.RecommendationsPractice implications include that present‐moment awareness is the cornerstone of mindfulness and that this can be practised and taught; that a counsellor's establishment of a personal mindfulness practice significantly supports their effective integration of mindfulness interventions in the clinical space; and that a client's sustained practice of mindfulness beyond the clinical space is indicative of a reduction of the frequency and intensity of depressive and anxious symptomology.The level of a counsellor's training and experience in mindfulness is found to be an important factor in the effectiveness of the use of mindfulness as a clinical intervention. This supports a case at policy level for the uptake of a mindfulness competencies framework for counselling trainees—including minimum duration of personal practice—in the service of greater consistency and accountability in the delivery of mindfulness techniques in the clinical space.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Feb 5, 2015
This article addresses the basis for the centrality of the therapeutic relationship in effective ... more This article addresses the basis for the centrality of the therapeutic relationship in effective therapeutic outcomes, especially as distinct from technique, which prevails in the 21st-century Australian mental health context as a focus in determining what constitutes evidence-based practice. Presence-oriented therapeutic approaches infer an intersubjective field within which transformative enquiry can occur. This forms the basis of the article’s exploration of the function of the phenomenon of the “field” for intersubjective therapeutic relationship and its relationship to Levinas’ “third” as the basis for transformative, ethical, therapeutic practice. Work on “fields,” in different disciplinary domains that share a focus on understanding underlying processes and patterns of physical and social organization, yields sufficient common ground to speak of a field as a substantive principle on which to base practice. Relational Gestalt psychotherapy has developed the concept of field sufficiently to have evolved principles for working with the felt effects of the field, without firm resolve yet as to the ontological status of relational fields. Paradigmatically the work remains emergent in most disciplines. Further transdisciplinary research into field theory may yield more nuanced analysis of how to work intentionally with field conditions.
Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia, Jul 1, 2015
Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 2021
BackgroundThe current study explores counsellors’ experiences of their integration of mindfulness... more BackgroundThe current study explores counsellors’ experiences of their integration of mindfulness into the treatment of their clients for depression and anxiety.MethodFive counsellors participated in semi‐structured interviews, which were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis to identify how the use of mindfulness in therapy was experienced and understood by participants.ResultsThe analysis produced six themes: the benefits of mindfulness for clients, the client's role in the success of mindfulness, the integrity of practice, using mindfulness in therapy, mindfulness techniques and the responsibility of a mindfulness practitioner. A description of these themes and related subordinate themes is presented, with analysis of the findings in relation to the literature.RecommendationsPractice implications include that present‐moment awareness is the cornerstone of mindfulness and that this can be practised and taught; that a counsellor's establishment of a person...
Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia
This article comprises reflections by nine members of the editorial board of the Psychotherapy an... more This article comprises reflections by nine members of the editorial board of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia (PACJA) on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, encompassing the personal, the professional, and the political.
Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia
During lockdown in response to COVID-19, students in the Master of Psychotherapy at Auckland Univ... more During lockdown in response to COVID-19, students in the Master of Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology were required to rapidly move their clinical work online. We surveyed these students about their experience of working clinically online. We used a mixed-methods approach and analysed qualitative data using grounded theory methods. Students found the move online challenging in terms of the technological challenges, lack of professional clinical space, and establishing and maintaining the therapeutic alliance. Students showed a strong preference for in-person (or, face-to-face) clinical work, along with scepticism about the efficacy of online therapy, though some acknowledged its convenience and others its currency and relevance. Most expressed a need for more specific training in online therapy. The literature finds equivalence between the effectiveness of in-person and online therapy. However, it acknowledges that online therapy can impose increased strain on clinic...
Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia
The aim of the 2020 workforce survey was to profile professionals affiliated with the Psychothera... more The aim of the 2020 workforce survey was to profile professionals affiliated with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) to inform future policy and service planning. PACFA is a national peak body for Australian counsellors and psychotherapists, representing 3,500 members across all states and territories. This study builds on previous workforce studies, the first of which was conducted in 2004. An online questionnaire was circulated to PACFA members covering participants’ demographics, qualifications, employment, sources of client referrals, client groups and presentations, along with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting previous findings, participants predominantly identified as female, as coming from Australian or English backgrounds, and as being located in or around major cities. Notably, a higher proportion of counsellors and psychotherapists than psychologists and psychiatrists (who also have qualifications as counsellors or psychotherapi...
Postmodern debate around subjectivity in the latter half of the twentieth century formed the inte... more Postmodern debate around subjectivity in the latter half of the twentieth century formed the intellectual basis for decentring the subject. Yet in most fields of cultural production the subject remains grounded in tlic dualistic and hierarchised sex/gender system. I argue that practices of reading and reception support the persistence of what Foucault has termed this "'interplay of truth and sex". To articulate subjects free from the subject-object relations of the sex/gender system requires a new model for conceiving and reading the subject. To this end I offer in this thesis a critique of current theories around sex and gender, intersubjectivity as a new model for articulating subjectivity, and a close reading of Virginia Woolf s Orlando: a biography as a literary practice of intersubjectivity. Taking reading practices for my mode and object of analysis I advance an interdisciplinary dialogue, across a diverse range of material, to make connections and offer insights that exceed the boundaries of the specific disciplines. '° This particular survey was conducted by Richard Docter, whose name begs the question of his corrective intentions toward transvestite men. i ' 4 This recourse to formalism to express new "truths" methodologically links the projects of quantum, Woolf and, by definition, Russian Formalism. .
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021
During the 2020 lockdown in response to COVID-19, students in the Master of Psychotherapy at the ... more During the 2020 lockdown in response to COVID-19, students in the Master of Psychotherapy at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) were required to rapidly move their clinical work online. We surveyed these students about their experience of working clinically online. We used a mixed-methods approach and analysed qualitative data using grounded theory methods. Students found the move online difficult, with technological challenges, the loss of a professional clinical space, and having to establish and maintain the therapeutic alliance in the unfamiliar online setting. They showed a strong preference for in-person clinical work, along with scepticism about the efficacy of online therapy, though some acknowledged its convenience and others its currency and relevance. Most expressed a need for more specific training in online therapy. Students rated their technological skill level higher than their levels of interest in online communication. This suggests that preferences, rather...
Journal of International Women's Studies, 2001
Setting an alternative research agenda Research by Luebke and Reilly and by Stearns (1994) into t... more Setting an alternative research agenda Research by Luebke and Reilly and by Stearns (1994) into the post-graduation career paths of Women's Studies students in the United States confirmed what practitioners have This journal and its contents may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.
Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science, 2021
An integrative literature review was undertaken as a means of drawing together contemporary persp... more An integrative literature review was undertaken as a means of drawing together contemporary perspectives on the outcomes and affordances of videoconference-based therapy. This review was conducted in a way which placed emphasis on the need for mental healthcare strategies which are mindful of the cultural and social needs of indigenous and ethnic minority populations, particularly those situated in the Global South. The review was undertaken using an inverse funnelling approach which sought to prioritise literature on videoconference-based therapy literature which specifically focused on indigenous and ethnic minority populations. A series of general and population specific searches across relevant health databases were supplemented by a simultaneous search of Google Scholar. The PICOS search tool was used in developing the search terms, and data was processed using an inductive approach to thematic analysis. A final dataset of 43 articles were included in the review. This body of l...
This paper uses developmental and philosophical notions derived from the work of de Beauvior, Can... more This paper uses developmental and philosophical notions derived from the work of de Beauvior, Canguilhem, Foucault, Rose, Butler and others to build a theory of what happens to the sense of self of young men in prison, and establishes a connection between the experience of imprisonment and men's violence towards women. It is the second in a series exploring the development of a criminal indentity as a consequence of criminal justice systems, particularly imprisonment, which are designed to cope with the behaviour resulting from criminal identity, in an endless loop.