Barrow, J.L. orcid.org/0000-0002-4646-2185, Masterson, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-8309-449X and Lee, R. (Cover date: 2023) ‘Showing people part of your life’: service-user experiences of taking and sharing photographs in a DBT-informed emotional coping skills group. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 16. e20. ISSN 1754-470X
Abstract
The added value of using photographs to explore experiences has been embraced in research methods such as photo-elicitation and Photovoice. Despite evidence that photographs aid communication and understanding, there is little research investigating photograph use within cognitive behavioural therapy. This project explores participant experiences of taking and sharing photographs within a dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)-informed emotional coping skills group intervention. Five service users were recruited from groups that had implemented the taking and sharing of photographs as a feature of homework tasks and feedback. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, using the photographs taken for the group as prompts, and interpretive phenomenological analysis was used to develop themes. Group evaluation data were used to support the analysis. Participants were positive about the impact of the photographs, despite initially experiencing anxieties regarding sharing them. The task supported them to express themselves in ways that added value to verbal feedback, which had benefits for group relationships and for the therapeutic tasks such as mindful observing. Further research is indicated, given the small sample and participants all being white, working-age females. However, the findings suggest that using photographs as homework tasks could support communication and the exploration of experiences that may be difficult to express using words.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2023. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Emotional coping skills group, Homework tasks, Photographs, Interpretive phenomenological analysis, Therapeutic photography |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2023 10:27 |
Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2023 16:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/s1754470x23000132 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:205158 |