The role of decor and clothing in psychotherapeutic practice and research
Research Questions The purpose of this study was to answer to the following research questions: (1) How do clients and psychotherapists understand their therapy experiences regarding clothes and decor? (2) Which of these experiences are considered beneficial for the psychotherapeutic process? (3) Wh...
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| Published in: | Counselling and psychotherapy research Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 75 - 85 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01-03-2024
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| Summary: | Research Questions
The purpose of this study was to answer to the following research questions: (1) How do clients and psychotherapists understand their therapy experiences regarding clothes and decor? (2) Which of these experiences are considered beneficial for the psychotherapeutic process? (3) Which of these experiences are considered detrimental to the psychotherapeutic process? (4) Which of these experiences are considered irrelevant to the psychotherapeutic process?
Method
In this interpretative phenomenological analysis, an in‐depth interview (M = 45 min) was used to collect data on experiences in psychotherapists' offices, related to decor or clothing, from clients (n = 10, 8 women; aged 18–24, Mdn = 21), as well as psychotherapists (n = 9 women psychotherapists; aged 29–58, Mdn = 30). The coding followed both the procedure of grounded theory emergent coding (exploratory inductive coding) and the procedure of framework analysis structured coding (deductive coding, which follows the research questions, with the aim of identifying causality). The interviews were coded by hand, after transcribing each interview verbatim. Coding was conducted in cycles, accompanied by memo writing (Birks et al., 2005).
Results
Collected data were organised into three themes: “positive psychotherapy experiences related to decor and clothing,” “negative psychotherapy experiences related to decor and clothing,” and “irrelevance of decor and clothing to psychotherapy experiences” (13 subthemes).
Discussions
Results were compared with the recent qualitative studies on this topic and with the empirical studies regarding decor and clothing in counselling and psychotherapy (since the 1950s). |
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| ISSN: | 1473-3145 1746-1405 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/capr.12598 |