msommerlund Posted January 22, 2010 Posted January 22, 2010 Hi there, My name is Merete Sommerlund, and I am a Ph.D. student in the Psychology Department at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. In my doctoral dissertation, I am investigating the experiences people have had with couple therapy (also referred to as marraige counseling, marital therapy, or couple counseling). If you have had experience with couple therapy, you can help me by telling me about your experiences. This type of research can help therapists and counselors develop better approaches to counseling, which, in turn, can improve the overall experience and outcome of couple therapy. I am particularly interested in the following questions: 1. What did it mean for you to be seeking couple therapy? 2. What did you think participating in therapy would do for your relationship? 3. What was your couple therapy experience like? 4. How did participating in the therapy affect your relationship short-term and long-term? 5. How did participating in the therapy affect your daily life? 6. How did the days between your sessions influence your therapy? Please consider taking the time to help. Understanding what this type of counseling is like for the clients can help professionals improve their services. Feel free to answer all of /part of some or all of the above questions. Anything you can add is helpful. I look forward to your replies! *Your responses may be used in the final document of the dissertation, which will be a public document. If your responses are used, any identifying information, such as your user id, will be altered in order to protect your privacy.
IllMan Posted January 22, 2010 Posted January 22, 2010 Merete Sommerlund - Annapolis Valley Health Services, Kentville, Nova Scotia Congratulations to the following senior students who have been placed in predoctoral internships for 2009-10! Course 2 Freud Who? Spring 2008 Uni of S. I could post more, but I won't. While what your seeking could be noble, you might obtain a better response by posting an email address we can send information to. While I don't mind blogging about my life to an extent, I don't want to share all my counseling information with my fellow posters...
BettyBoop Posted January 22, 2010 Posted January 22, 2010 I think you should know then that it won't look very good if you base that on those questions and not an actual interview with people online where you cannot know if it is true or a hoax...besides, people participating should always be allowed to give their ethical consent... you are asking them to write answers to very difficult and by no means short-answer questions where only one party of the couple can respond - as well as asking them to perhaps write an entire essay for every single question - or can you really use a sentence as a respone to base your work on? This does not seem like you thought it very much through...
Author msommerlund Posted February 18, 2010 Author Posted February 18, 2010 Thank you both for your replies. Ethical approval of this research protocol was granted by the Behavioural Research Ethics Board of the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) on September 23, 2009. You are correct in suggesting that this type of data collection will give information from a certain perspective, and that other means of data collection would produce different information about the area of interest. This is why a doctoral dissertation typically includes multiple studies that rely upon different means of data collection and analyses, as is also the case with this program of research. Discussion forums allow people to say exactly what they want, how they want, with as much or as little detail they want about a topic. It is a very unique type of research data than can be used to get some understanding of how people think/talk/feel about something. In terms of consent, anyone who read my thread is free to choose whether or not to reply to it. Also, depending on comfort level, I certanly encourage people who have experience with couple therapy/marital counselling to reply to as many or as few of the questions I have posed with as much or as little information as they prefer. No essays needed. I certainly don't expect anyone to reveal personal information about their specific concerns discussed in counselling; rather, I am looking for information about the counselling experience in itself. It is my hope that others who read your replies may get some ideas about what to expect in a counselling situation and use this information for their own benefit. I hope this clarifies some of your concerns. I really look forward to hearing about your experiences.
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