Existential Experimentation: From being and doing to an approach that addresses the theme of ‘insider and outsider’
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https://doi.org/10.65828/dbx2jq05Keywords:
NHS, existential experimentation, existential phenomenological psychotherapy, outcome measures, change, goals, Repertory Grid Technique.Abstract
This paper articulates how an existential-phenomenologically informed intervention fits within a primary care setting in the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS). It focuses on how a measurable notion of change in the form of client-determined goals and Repertory Grid Technique (RGT) can be integrated in a way that does not compromise existential-phenomenological values and principles. A case study is cited to help demonstrate this way of working.
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