Psychologists' Lived Experience of Client Violence

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The objective of the proposed research is to gain a detailed understanding and account of psychologists' experience of client violence in clinical practice. The emphasis is upon a detailed understanding of how psychologists perceive and understand their experience of client violence and its impact upon their identity as clinicians and as individuals.

Detailed Description
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This research is interested in Counselling and Clinical Psychologists who have experienced client violence at their work place. The main research question being asked is how do psychologists' understand their personal experiences of client violence. This is an important and interesting subject for Counselling and Clinical Psychologists as it provides a detailed personal account of the implications of violence upon their personal and professional identity, psychological well being and how they define violence. Furthermore, this research may help facilitate in designing a specific policy and help future research to issue guidelines for counselling and clinical psychologists in order to keep themselves safe within their professional practice. Psychologists working for the National Health Service will be recruited and provided with information regarding the research aims and objectives. There will be interviews held at their place of work for approximately one hour.

Official Title
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Counselling and Clinical Psychologists Lived Experience of Client Violence

Conditions
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Life Experiences

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Information Sheet
* Other: Consent
* Other: interview
* Other: Debrief


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Psychologist's who have experienced client violence Exclusion Criteria: -

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 24 Years
Maximum Age: 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Other: providing information sheet<br>providing participants with information regarding the purpose of the research | Other: Information Sheet<br>* Providing the Participant with information regarding the aim of the experiment<br>|
| Other: Seeking consent<br> | Other: Consent<br>* Providing a consent form for participants. The participant is aware of his or her rights<br>|
| Other: Interview Participant<br> | Other: interview<br>* participants will interviewed by fardin jussab for approximately one hour regarding their experience of client violence<br>|
| Other: Debrief<br>The Participants will be debriefed after the interview. | Other: Debrief<br>* at the end of each interview the researcher will ask participants whether the emotions aroused in the interview require further discussions. Interviewees will be also advised that should they wish to talk further about any topics covered the in the interview, they could telephone the researcher at a later time. There will also be leaflets of supporting agencies.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| experience of violence | participant's discuss their experince of client violence in the work place | one hour | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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violence