The Pave Project Report - Queen's University Belfast

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Recommendations:
Based on our findings, services could be categorised as psychotherapy if they
include the following:
1. A selection process of fully trained and accredited psychotherapists;
2. use of a certain therapeutic approach (eg., CBT; EMDR) or a mixture of
different approaches;
3. meetings at pre-arranged times and location as often as deemed necessary;
4. evaluation and follow-up of each service user’s case in order to determine the
duration, frequency and effectiveness of the service.
Counselling
Counselling was used by 16 of the groups. Some groups brought in trained and
accredited counsellors for one-to-one sessions or referred their service users to
counsellors outside the group (n=4). Between 2 and 150 people availed of this service
in each group and it was offered by 1 to 4 trained counsellors in most of the groups,
although one of the groups had 8 and another up to 12 counsellors. The number of
sessions usually depended on the needs of each individual (n=15). The longest period
of counselling in one of the groups was 2 years and in another group it was 30
sessions, and the shortest time was a single counselling session. The most popular
approaches were client-centered Rogerian (n=8), cognitive-behavioural (n=8),
problem-solving (n=7), humanistic (n=4), and eclectic (n=3). Two of the groups were