{"title":"Photovoice as Counseling Intervention and Research Method: One Family’s Experience of Barriers to Implementing Mindfulness Skills","authors":"Corrine R. Sackett, Alyssa M. Jenkins, L. Gambrel","doi":"10.1080/21501378.2023.2206952","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This photovoice study was conducted simultaneously for the purpose of research and clinical intervention with one client family to explore their experiences of barriers to implementing mindfulness skills learned in counseling into their everyday lives. Photovoice is an ideal research methodology for investigating clients’ perspectives on the counseling process because it centralizes the client worldview, minimizes researcher interpretation, and empowers clients toward action. The sample consisted of four participants (one family) whose ages were 16, 18, 41, and 43, and all identified as White or Caucasian. The family identified (a) What Life Does to Us and What We Do to Ourselves, (b) Schedules- What We Have to Do and Not Have to Do, and (c) Resistance to Change is Natural as themes representing barriers to implementing mindfulness skills at home. Authors collaborated as researcher and practitioner in this endeavor and discuss implications for scholarship and practice.","PeriodicalId":37884,"journal":{"name":"Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation","volume":"49 1","pages":"89 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21501378.2023.2206952","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This photovoice study was conducted simultaneously for the purpose of research and clinical intervention with one client family to explore their experiences of barriers to implementing mindfulness skills learned in counseling into their everyday lives. Photovoice is an ideal research methodology for investigating clients’ perspectives on the counseling process because it centralizes the client worldview, minimizes researcher interpretation, and empowers clients toward action. The sample consisted of four participants (one family) whose ages were 16, 18, 41, and 43, and all identified as White or Caucasian. The family identified (a) What Life Does to Us and What We Do to Ourselves, (b) Schedules- What We Have to Do and Not Have to Do, and (c) Resistance to Change is Natural as themes representing barriers to implementing mindfulness skills at home. Authors collaborated as researcher and practitioner in this endeavor and discuss implications for scholarship and practice.
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Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CORE) provides counselor educators, researchers, educators, and other mental health practitioners with outcome research and program evaluation practices for work with individuals across the lifespan. It addresses topics such as: treatment efficacy, clinical diagnosis, program evaluation, research design, outcome measure reviews. This journal also serves to address ethical, legal, and cultural concerns in the assessment of dependent variables, implementation of clinical interventions, and outcome research. Manuscripts typically fall into one of the following categories: Counseling Outcome Research: Treatment efficacy and effectiveness of mental health, school, addictions, rehabilitation, family, and college counseling interventions across the lifespan as reported in clinical trials, single-case research designs, single-group designs, and multi- or mixed-method designs.