Student Research Studies

PACFA supports research into counselling and psychotherapy. As a service to the field, we list current research studies as a service to students who ask us to publicise their research.

The PACFA Research Committee has sighted the Human Research Ethics Approvals for all the studies shown below. If you have any concerns about the research, or its conduct, please contact the researcher or the relevant Human Research Ethics Committee.

Kevin Glasheen, a PhD student at QUT, has Ethics Approval Number 0900000406 to conduct a study into online counselling in secondary schools. If you are interested, please click here for further details or contact Kevin by email on k.glasheen@qut.edu.au.

Geoff Newbegin, Master of Counselling Psychology student at La Trobe University has Ethics Approval Number FHEC11/20 for a study entitled ‘The Effects of mindfulness and metta mediation training on the therapist and the therapeutic relationship.If you are interested, please click here for further details or contact Geoff on 0414 410 298.

Stephanie O’Rourke, a Psychology honours student at University of Tasmania, has Ethics Approval Number H0011851 to conduct a study into the practices of therapists in high conflict child custody cases. If you work in this field and are interested in this study, please click here for further details or contact Stefanie by email on slo@postoffice.utas.edu.au.

Katrina Boterhoven de Haan, a Psychology honours student at Murdoch University, has Ethics Approval Number 2011/189 to conduct a study to investigate clinicians' perceptions of the core processes of 3 therapy approaches (SFT, CBT, PDT). Should you be willing to participate in this research please click here which will take you to a website and allow for you to complete the questionnaire online. You will be asked to indicate to your consent to participate in this study. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this study contact Katrina kat_boterhoven@hotmail.com or Dr Chris Lee chris.lee@murdoch.edu.au.

Dr Lovell and Dr Kannis - The researchers are staff members of the University of the Sunshine Coast, have Ethics Approval Number A10263 to conduct an online survey examining what mental health conditions are being treated or managed by exercise and what methods of exercise prescription are currently being used. Furthermore, to examine what issues are considered to be key road-blocks to the prescription of exercise for mental health by practitioners treating patients with mental health concerns. If you are interested, please click here for further details, the researchers’ contact details, and to complete the survey.