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Lee, D.A. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9971-3542,
2017.
Enter centre stage, the case study ...
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling.
ISSN 0306-9885
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Abstract
This existentially-informed person-centred paper argues that current conceptualisations of ‘case studies’ (beloved of psychotherapy training and beyond), can reduce complex/beautiful human beings to flat/objectified characters defined by ‘presenting problems’ – ‘presenting problems’ which clever therapists ‘fix’. In response, the paper develops an arts-based approach: a collaborative, respectful/ethical, narrative ‘case study’, written as a play – a piece of public psychotherapy available for the audience’s responses. The play seeks particularly to convey the warmth of encounters between two rounded/unique characters, Deborah and Kate, offering a challenge to the ‘us’ and ‘them’ approach of many ‘case studies’; it contends that if this is achieved, it is this - rather than narrow/sterile advice about ‘assessment’, ‘formulation’ and ‘interventions’ – which establishes the usefulness of the work.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | British Journal of Guidance & Counselling | ||||
| Creators: | Lee, D.A. | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| Date: | 11 April 2017 | ||||
| ISSN: | 0306-9885 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||
| Date Added: | 20 Apr 2017 12:55 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Apr 2018 03:00 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30519 |
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