Carers’ beliefs about counselling: a community participatory study in Wales

Rachel Waters, Sheila Spong, Janet Morgan, Chris Kemp-philp

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Abstract

This interpretivist community participatory study explores carers’ beliefs about the potential usefulness of counselling in relation to the caring role. Twenty semi-structured interviews with carers were transcribed and analysed thematically. All participants thought counselling could potentially be helpful to carers, but their ideas about the ways in which it would help varied according to whether or not they had personal experience of counselling. Only carers with counselling experience had an awareness of counselling as focussing on changing feelings, thoughts, attitudes and behaviours. The implications of the findings for the provision of counselling services are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-13
JournalBritish Journal of Guidance & Counselling
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Mar 2018

Keywords

  • Caregivers
  • carers
  • counselling
  • interventions
  • beliefs about counselling
  • knowledge

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