Harper, Michael (2019) Therapist Self-Disclosure: Comparing Feminist Therapy and Cultural Therapy. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Therapist self-disclosure is anything that reveals personal information about the therapist to the client (Hill & Knox, 2002). Practitioners are divided on what is truly best practice (Gibson, 2012) and researchers are ambivalent on its impact on therapy processes and therapy outcomes (Henretty & Levitt, 2010). This impasse offers little guidance for training future counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists (Jeffrey & Austin, 2007). This study aims to clarify this by exploring how experienced practitioners manage self-disclosure. This study followed an exploratory case study design examining how an experienced practitioner from feminist therapy and cultural therapy introduce and manage self-disclosure. Data consisted of two recorded therapeutic sessions, one from feminist therapy, one from cultural therapy both featuring therapist self-disclosure. It used conversation analysis as the research framework and analytic methodology. Results indicate both the therapist and client can and do, introduce therapist self-disclosure in a therapeutic setting. This study also found a discrepancy between what SD literature suggests and how exemplary therapists introduce and manage it throughout therapy. It is hoped that the outcomes of this study will provide a basis for future research to build upon to inform therapist and trainers with evidence-based advice on how best to introduce and manage self-disclosure throughout therapy.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Steven Christensen |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2025 04:13 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Sep 2025 04:13 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Self-disclosure; feminist therapy; cultural therapy; conversation analysis; training |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52385 |
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