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A Hermeneutic Inquiry of Counselors' Experiences in the Use of Pictorial Narratives

Taylor, Jeannine M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586875445042165

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2020, PHD, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences.
The primary purpose of this study was to explore counselors' perceptions of how Pictorial Narratives influenced their ability to more fully understand their clients. More specifically, the researcher sought to address how Pictorial Narratives influenced participants' ability to support and maintain a therapeutic relationship, to become more attuned to their clients' emotions, and to engage in a meaningful therapeutic dialogue. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 participants, all of whom were licensed professional clinical counselors. The research design utilized an interpretive paradigm based on the work of Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology. It was further informed by Gadamer's extension of the hermeneutic method by emphasizing the importance of language and dialogue as sources from which knowledge emerge. The results suggested four major themes that emerged from the data. These themes suggested that Pictorial Narratives helped the participants to (a) support and maintain a strong therapeutic relationship; (b) access emotion; (c) enhance the quality of the therapeutic dialogue, and (d) employ a pragmatic versatility to the counseling process. A discussion of the results and implications for counselor education and supervision were included. Limitations and recommendations for future research on the clinical utility of Pictorial Narratives were described.
Cassandra Storlie, PHD (Committee Chair)
Jason McGlothlin, PHD (Committee Co-Chair)
Janice Kroeger, PHD (Committee Member)
266 p.
Counseling Education
Counseling; Pictorial Narratives; Narrative; Experiential; Reflexivity; Hermeneutic; Phenomenology; Emotion; Therapeutic Dialogue; Counseling Techniques; Therapeutic Relationship; Postmodern; Social Constructionism; Constructivist; Perceptions

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  • Taylor, J. M. (2020). A Hermeneutic Inquiry of Counselors' Experiences in the Use of Pictorial Narratives [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586875445042165

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Taylor, Jeannine. A Hermeneutic Inquiry of Counselors' Experiences in the Use of Pictorial Narratives. 2020. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586875445042165.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Taylor, Jeannine. "A Hermeneutic Inquiry of Counselors' Experiences in the Use of Pictorial Narratives." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586875445042165

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