Terry Hanley, BSc, MSc, MA
Lecturer in Counselling
Terry directs the MA in Counselling Studies (January intake) and contributes to the research modules in the Diploma and Masters Counselling courses.
Main Research Interests
Much of Terry's work focuses upon the development of online counselling services for young people within the UK. Fundamentally this can be broken down into four major areas of interest:
- The development of Online Counselling Services
- The development of Youth Friendly Counselling Services
- The development of Research Approaches appropriate for Counsellors
- The development of Online Research Approaches
Presently he is an Economic and Social research Council (ESRC) funded PhD student at the University. This work will focus upon the creation of a county wide online counselling service for 13-19 year olds in Cheshire. For more information regarding this work please visit www.onlinecounsellingresearch.co.uk.
Main Teaching Interests
- The historical developments of counselling theory
- The integration of counselling theories - looking towards a common factors approach to counselling
- Training counsellors to appreciate and utilise research in their practice
- Training counsellors to conduct small-scale research projects
- Integrating technology into counselling practice
International Experience
Terry is an active member of the International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO) and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). He regularly attends and presents at the annual International conference hosted by the latter of these organisations.
Selected Recent Publications
Terry has recently guest edited a special edition of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's Research Journal (Counselling and Psychotherapy Research). The first three papers mentioned here are contributions to this work.
Hanley, T. (2006a). Developing youth friendly online counselling services in the United Kingdom: A small scale investigation into the views of practitioners. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, In Press
Hanley, T. (2006b). A day in the life . . . A worm's eye view of doing counselling research. Do mice eat worms? Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, In Press
West, W. & Hanley, T. (2006). Technically incompetent or generally misguided: Learning from a failed counselling research project. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, In Press
Hanley, T. (2004). E-Motion Online. Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, 15 (1) 48-49
Hanley, T. & Morrison, R. (2003). Visyon. Accessible services for 11 to 25 year olds. Child and Adolescent Mental health in Primary Care, 1 (3), 89-91