ABSTRACT
This book is primarily a ‘how to’ book offering ideas and guidance on how to write up assignments on a training course, how to reflect on therapeutic work and how to structure a case study. It is also a book to encourage you to develop the motivation to articulate and put in writing your thinking about all aspects of therapeutic work – both clinical and theoretical. Furthermore, this book aims to inspire you to research therapeutic work and to publish your findings. Therapists have tended to remain behind the closed door of the consulting room, keeping quiet about their knowledge and their experiences of human life in all its trials and sufferings. This book is a timely reminder that we have a great deal to offer and our experiences, once in the public domain, can influence policy and practice and deepen understanding in many contexts. The examples of work-based research described in the book demonstrate that wherever therapeutic work takes place it can be researched. The compassionate understanding and listening skills of the therapist can be seen alongside the capacity for critical thinking and evaluation.
