Clinical Practice (Research)

Overview

The Clinical Practice (Research) DClinPrac(Res) programme from The University of Exeter   Key Facts:

A further programme aim is to develop innovative research which combines psychoanalytic or systemic concepts and processes with established and emerging research approaches including social science methods.

By the end of the Clinical Practice (Research) programme at The University of Exeter we aim to have enabled members to:

• Develop a sophisticated understanding of research methodologies applicable to their area of clinical practice or interest;
• Become research ‘literate’.
• Develop the capacity to critically review and reflect upon the theoretical and clinical assumptions underlying their practice;
• Independently evaluate research using advanced scholarship and understanding of research methodologies and design and to able to understand and argue for alternative approaches;
• Conceptualise, design and implement a project for the generation of new knowledge relevant to psychotherapy practice;
• Develop a substantial, in-depth and systematic understanding of an area of their clinical practice;
• Analyse and manage ethical dilemmas and to work in an ethical manner;
• Act independently and with originality in relation to problem solving, planning and implementing tasks at an advanced level;