William West, Ph.D., BSc, MA BACP Accred., BACP Fellow
Reader in Counselling
Main research interests:
- The role of spirituality in counselling, psychotherapy, education and pastoral care.
- The training, supervision and professional development of therapists.
- Culture, human lives and therapy.
- Research methodologies that are congruent with therapeutic practice.
Main teaching interests
- Director of Professional Doctorate in Counselling
- Postmodern qualitative methodologies
- counselling and spirituality
- counselling and culture
International experience:
What I have learnt from counselling and counselling research, keynote speech to Kenyan Association for Professional Counsellors 5th Annual International Conference, Nairobi, September 2004.
Situating the researcher in qualitative psychotherapy research around spirituality, paper to the Annual Conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (International) Rome, June 2004.
The culture of the researcher, paper to the Annual Conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (International) Weimar, Germany, June 2003.
Selected recent publications:
Moodley, R., and West, W. S., (Eds) Integrating traditional healing practices into counselling and psychotherapy, Sage, 2005.
West, W. S., Spiritual Issues in Therapy, Relating Experience to Practice, Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.
West, W. S., and Clark, V., 'Learnings from a qualitative study into counselling supervision; listening to supervisor and supervisee', Counselling Psychotherapy Research, 4(2) 20-26, 2004.
West, W. S., 'An Introduction to the Symposium on Counselling and Armed Conflicts', British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 31(4) 355-357 2003.
West, W. S., and McLeod, J., 'Cultural landscapes in counselling and psychotherapy: Introduction to the Theme Section', Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 3(2) 83-85, 2003