Psychotherapy trainees' experiences of their own mandatory personal therapy raise "serious ethical considerations"

Many training programmes for psychotherapists and counsellors include a mandatory personal therapy component – as well as learning about psychotherapeutic theories and techniques, and practising being a therapist, the trainee must also spend time in therapy themselves, in the role of a client. This new article by Dr David Murphy, featured in The British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, looks at what it is like for trainees to complete their own mandatory therapy.

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