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30 Sep 2013, 7:06 am

This post caught my eye because at the moment I'm doing a research project at UWE (Bristol) for my counselling psychology training.

At the moment there is some advice (like the book that was linked above) about how to make counselling work best, but it seems no researcher has ever interviewed people who've had counselling to find out what their experiences were or what they found helpful or unhelpful. So this is the research I'm doing.

I need to interview at least 10 people who have a diagnosis of Aspergers, are over the age of 18, and have had any number of counselling sessions, about any issue. We can meet face to face or have an interview over the internet (Email or IM). It is my hope that I can use information from the interviews to improve the training and advice given to counsellors.

If you would like more information about taking part in this research please email me: Stephanie.Wilson@live.uwe.ac.uk

You can also contact my research supervisors Dr Victoria Clarke Victoria.Clarke@uwe.ac.uk and Andrea Halewood Andrea.Halewood@uwe.ac.uk

Thank you for reading,
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02 Oct 2013, 3:42 pm

The post above, from Ste83ph, asking for participants in a survey, has been approved by Alex.


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02 Oct 2013, 6:07 pm

Ste83ph wrote:
This post caught my eye because at the moment I'm doing a research project at UWE (Bristol) for my counselling psychology training.

At the moment there is some advice (like the book that was linked above) about how to make counselling work best, but it seems no researcher has ever interviewed people who've had counselling to find out what their experiences were or what they found helpful or unhelpful. So this is the research I'm doing.

I need to interview at least 10 people who have a diagnosis of Aspergers, are over the age of 18, and have had any number of counselling sessions, about any issue. We can meet face to face or have an interview over the internet (Email or IM). It is my hope that I can use information from the interviews to improve the training and advice given to counsellors.

If you would like more information about taking part in this research please email me: Stephanie.Wilson@live.uwe.ac.uk

You can also contact my research supervisors Dr Victoria Clarke Victoria.Clarke@uwe.ac.uk and Andrea Halewood Andrea.Halewood@uwe.ac.uk

Thank you for reading,
Steph


I might be willing to participate in such a study, but wonder if there's a possibility to do so anonymously?

Also, I'm not clear what you mean by counselling in this context. I've been seeing a psychotherapist since the end of last year and she also does short-term counselling. However, she seems to think that these are two different things that require different approaches, albeit within the CBT framework. In general, I would suggest that people with Asperger's don't tend to see a psychologist for a few short counselling sessions, but rather for long-term therapies. Please clarify. Thanks.



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03 Oct 2013, 10:33 am

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Belfast wrote:
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My therapist would like to do CBT with me, but I don't usually do my homework. I'd like to do something more intellectual, analytical. So we end up just talking. She still hopes to get me to become more emotional. Recently, I came across this book (written for therapists) about CBT for adults with autism and recommended she buy it:

http://www.guilford.com/cgi-bin/cartscr ... p&cart_id=

I bought this^ book, but I still couldn't make CBT work for me.


The book is meant for therapists. Did you give it to him/her? Did (s)he read it?

No, I bought the book for myself, not for someone else-
I wanted to "CBT" myself, because I won't listen to anybody else telling me what to do or trying to manipulate me.
I'm ornery & stubborn, so it made sense to me to just cut out the middleman & read the book for myself.
I do see a number of clinicians, but they know better than to try dealing with me via a cookie cutter approach.


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04 Oct 2013, 4:42 am

Hi,

Anonymous: Yes, there is the option to do this either over the internet or face-to-face. In either case anything you tell me will remain anonymous, I won't take any identifying details about you (name/location/ address etc). If you tell me something during the interview that could identify you in my research (for example if you happened to tell me you went to school in Bristol and now work for 'Orange') I would change those details in an effort to make it very difficult for anyone to identify you.

I'm using counselling in a broad sense here, psychotherapy/ counselling/ therapy/ CBT/ short-term/ long-term... Because I am hoping to find out about all these experiences in the hope of learning about what has been found helpful or unhelpful.

If you are interested I can Email you the information sheet? Stephanie.Wilson@live.uwe.ac.uk

Many thanks,
Steph

Aspendos wrote:

I might be willing to participate in such a study, but wonder if there's a possibility to do so anonymously?

Also, I'm not clear what you mean by counselling in this context. I've been seeing a psychotherapist since the end of last year and she also does short-term counselling. However, she seems to think that these are two different things that require different approaches, albeit within the CBT framework. In general, I would suggest that people with Asperger's don't tend to see a psychologist for a few short counselling sessions, but rather for long-term therapies. Please clarify. Thanks.



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18 Oct 2013, 9:14 pm

I just changed psychologists about 3 months ago, and I feel like I'm making some progress. He reminded me of a few techniques that I use for vocal warmups, which are breathing exercises. Since I also have an iPhone and an iPad, he directed me to a free app called Relax+. My only beef with this app is it costs 1.99 for additional tracks for use in this app to enhance creativity, reduce guilt, promote positivity, break gambling addiction, etc. I run this app every night in order to relax and get to sleep. It works, as long as you keep at it. I've not been as anxious, except for the antics in Washington,, and the recent rejection of my job application. He's also been encouraging me to get out more. Now that I have the time, I have gone back to singing with the County Ecumenical Choir. The director, who lives down the road from me was glad to see me back, as well as half the choir.