Exploring the Essence of Counselors Facilitating Hope in Session: A Qualitative Transcendental Phenomenological Approach
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798557059428
- Category
- Counselors
- Pages
- 156
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Karen T. Drew
Description
Hope has not inspired much empirical research in the field of mental health counseling. This is puzzling, since many therapeutic approaches recognize hope as an essential element in the emotional healing process. This study explores counselors’ experience of facilitating hope in counseling sessions. A qualitative transcendental phenomenological research approach was used in an effort to gain understanding of the experience and offer suggestions for increasing facilitated hope in sessions. The participants were seven licensed mental health counselors within the Rocky Mountain Region with a diverse range of ages, experiences, and therapeutic approaches. Data analysis revealed that the lived experience of counselors facilitating hope in sessions is associated with having self-awareness of hope; acknowledging clients’ small, positive advancement toward a preferred future; helping clients identify their own strengths; and co-creating flexible goals when appropriate. This is all experienced through a safe and trusting in-session relationship. These findings are consistent with Weingarten’s (2010) framework of reasonable hope as a precursor for change but emphasizes the slow process of positive transformation. Implications of the study include the need for expanded research into hope in-session and for education on facilitated hope in counselor educational programs. This study may lead to the development and application of interventions that can increase counselors’ awareness of personal hope and ability to facilitate hope in sessions.
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