Psychologists' Lived Experience of Client Violence

Sponsor

University of East London (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT01414543

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Location

Arms

Duration (Months)

0.3

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Life Experiences	Other: Information Sheet Other: Consent Other: interview Other: Debrief	N/A

Detailed Description

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.

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Anticipated Enrollment :

10 participants

Allocation:

Non-Randomized

Intervention Model:

Single Group Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Health Services Research

Official Title:

Counselling and Clinical Psychologists Lived Experience of Client Violence

Study Start Date :

Oct 1, 2009

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Oct 1, 2012

Actual Study Completion Date :

Oct 1, 2012

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Other: providing information sheet providing participants with information regarding the purpose of the research	Other: Information Sheet Providing the Participant with information regarding the aim of the experiment
Other: Seeking consent	Other: Consent Providing a consent form for participants. The participant is aware of his or her rights
Other: Interview Participant	Other: interview participants will interviewed by fardin jussab for approximately one hour regarding their experience of client violence
Other: Debrief The Participants will be debriefed after the interview.	Other: Debrief 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.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

experience of violence [one hour]
participant's discuss their experince of client violence in the work place

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

24 Years to 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

Psychologist's who have experienced client violence

Exclusion Criteria:

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	National Health Service	London		United Kingdom

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of East London

Investigators

Study Chair: Helen Murphy, BA, MSc, DPhil, University of East London

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

Fardin Jussab, Dr, University of East London

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT01414543

Other Study ID Numbers:

UEL1

First Posted:

Aug 11, 2011

Last Update Posted:

May 11, 2016

Last Verified:

Aug 1, 2009

Keywords provided by Fardin Jussab, Dr, University of East London

violence

Study Results

No Results Posted as of May 11, 2016