%0 Journal Article
%T ClientsĄ¯ Experience of Therapist-Disclosure: Helpful and Hindering Factors and Conditions
%A Duncan Cartwright
%A Lorato Kenosi
%J Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology
%D 2018
%R https://doi.org/10.1080/20797222.2018.1499268
%X In psychotherapy, the norm and expectation is for clients to self-disclose, thus disregarding and discouraging self-disclosure by therapists. This study aimed to investigate clientsĄ¯ subjective experience of therapist disclosure, and in particular how clients interpret, appraise and react to therapist disclosure, using semi-structured interviews to gather data from eight research participants. By means of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of the data three basic themes were revealed: (1) perceived underlying conditions of the disclosure event, (2) disclosure type and (3) disclosure impacts. The findings indicate that the underlying conditions surrounding the therapistĄ¯s disclosure are the determinant factor as to how clients experience therapist disclosure, regardless of either the disclosure type or the impact of the disclosure on clientsĄ¯ lives
%U https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20797222.2018.1499268