The Treatment Planning of Experienced Counsellors: A Qualitative Examination

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Article Name: The Treatment Planning of Experienced Counsellors: A Qualitative
Examination
Theories used to develop method of inquiry
The article has been performed by using two separate methods, firstly existing studies
have been reviewed to generate suitable insight regarding the existing treatment planning of
experienced counsellors. Likewise, the study uses qualitative approach to investigate
counsellor experience about the treatment planning. Considering the qualitative approach,
exploratory method has been used to address the research questions. As put forward by
Creswell and Creswell (2017), exploratory research merely explore the research questions
and does not intend to provide final as well as conclusive solutions to the existing problems.
However, in the article, the authors have used this method to understand the nature of the
problem which has not been properly defined yet with respect to counsellor experiences’
about the treatment.
Describing the qualitative theory
Even though there is vast categories of theories under qualitative method,
phenomenology is one such theory, which helps to explain how individuals give meaning to
or consider the social phenomenon in their regular life. As mentioned by Škodlar et al.
(2013), the fundamental role of phenomenology is to explore the essence of consciousness as
the experienced from the first-person individual point of view. In the given article,
phenomenology was used by researcher to approach the counsellors and develop interaction
with them so that it is learnt how counsellors have made sense of their dynamic treatment
planning.