Publication details
Client-identified impacts of helpful and hindering events in psychotherapy: An updated qualitative meta-analysis
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Understanding the clients’ perspective in psychotherapy is essential for psychotherapy to be effective. The significant events paradigm represents a useful means to explore clients’ in-session experience. The aim of this study is to investigate what types of client-identified impacts are reported in qualitative studies on helpful and hindering events. Seventeen primary studies focusing on client-identified helpful and hindering events were identified through database and subsequent manual search. The data were subjected to qualitative meta-analysis. The descriptions of event impacts were classified into 12 helpful and seven hindering impact meta-categories. The findings provide an update of Timulak’s (2007) seminal meta-analysis by adding several new categories of helpful impacts and by categorizing hindering impacts. |
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