A qualitative exploration of the experience and personal and professional impact of psychodynamic and integrative counselling training on adoptee counsellors
Researchers interviewed four counsellors adopted before their first birthday: two trained in psychodynamic counselling and two in integrative counselling. Interpretative phenomenological analysis examined their training experiences. Themes concerned disclosure, their place in the world, relationships and reflection on themselves. Participants described training as helping them understand adoption-related identity and relationship difficulties.
Limitations: Only four counsellors participated. Retrospective accounts from this specialist group cannot represent adoptees generally or establish that training caused improvement. Findings concern participants’ own interpretations; no comparison group or outcome trial was used.
- Research type
- Qualitative study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
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- Age group
- Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: adults
Adoption context: Adoption in infancy; adult adoptee counsellors
Programme: Not recorded
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, adult adoptees, family relationships, identity, professional training, therapy
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Country as recorded: United Kingdom (regional coverage not specified in abstract)
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