Counselling Changes Lives: Research That Impacts Practice

Symposia submission BACP Research Conference May 2018 Counselling changes lives: research that impacts practice

Submitting a SYMPOSIUM

Submission deadline: Friday 3 November 2017

Symposia presentation information

A symposium is a linked series of three to five papers maximum (including the overview), often with a discussant, bringing together different studies within a larger programme of research, or similar studies from different teams of researchers. The lead person organising the symposium should submit all parts of the symposia as a whole. It is the responsibility of the lead author to keep all authors of the symposia updated with the developments of the peer review process and preparation for the conference. Submissions which include an element of participatory research during the session, (e.g., using conference delegates in your session as part of your research) will not be accepted.

A symposium lasts for 90 minutes, a maximum of 4 presentations plus the overview will be allowed in a symposium. Dependent upon programme space, symposium submissions with three papers may be offered a 60 minute session on the programme. Each symposium submission must include separate abstracts for each presentation, as well as a summary abstract (overview) for the symposium as a whole. Although each symposium is regarded as a whole, each paper will be peer reviewed separately.

Please take the tips for presenters into consideration prior to preparing your submission.

How should your abstract be structured? Abstract length is limited to one A4 sheet, with a maximum word limit of 350 of the author’s own typed words and may be written in the third person or the first person, depending on the specific methodological approach taken in your research. Margins must be 2cm for both left and right and 1.7cm for top and bottom and Trebuchet MS font size 11. All abstracts must be accompanied by a completed submission form (below). In addition to your abstract, you can supply references on a separate sheet and these will be noted and kept for distribution should there be follow up requests.

Please view a copy of the 2017 abstract booklet to ensure abstract structure.

SYMPOSIUM overview

The following is a clear indication of what each section of your symposium overview abstract should contain:

Five keywords: 5 key words which capture the topic of the symposium

Title of the symposium overview

The aims of the symposium:

 What does the symposium aim to explore/answer?

Contribution of each symposium paper to the overall theme:

 How does each paper relate to the symposium theme?  What does each paper add to the symposium?

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Implications of the symposium theme for counselling and psychotherapy theory, research and practice:

 What are the take-home messages from your research?  What does this mean for the counselling/psychotherapy field in terms of research, training or practice?

Name of the symposium discussant: (if you intend to have one)

Additional SYMPOSIUM papers

A separate abstract and submission form must be included for each paper in the symposium. The following is a clear overview of what each section of your abstract should contain:

Five Keywords: 5 key words which capture the topic of the research

Title of research paper

Aim/Purpose: ‘why did you do it?’

 What is already known about the topic?  What is not known about the topic?  What did the research aim to answer?

Design/Methodology: ‘how did you do it?’

 What research methodology was used?  How did you select participants? (Please include sample size and recruitment/sampling method)  How were the data collected e.g. surveys, outcome measures, interviews, focus groups etc?  How were data analysed?

Results/Findings: ‘what did you find?’

 Some demographic information about the sample e.g. gender, age, level of training etc.  Over-arching/superordinate themes from qualitative research or the main statistical findings from quantitative research  Any adverse or unexpected findings which might not support the hypothesis

Research Limitations (please include implications to practice): ‘what caution should be applied when interpreting the findings?’

 How reliable and valid are the findings?  Are the findings generalisable to a wider population?  Have the limitations of the research methodology been taken into account? e.g. role of researcher subjectivity in qualitative research or non-consideration of contextual influences in quantitative research etc.

Conclusions/Implications: ‘what does it mean?’

 The take-home message, based on the primary study finding  What does this mean for the counselling/psychotherapy field in terms of research, training or practice? 2 Symposia submission BACP Research Conference May 2018 Counselling changes lives: research that impacts practice

Which criteria will judges base their decisions on for a SYMPOSIUM submission?

The following criteria should be considered when writing your symposium abstracts; this is the criteria that peer reviewers will be using when assessing abstracts for symposia presentations.

 Overall topic is relevant to audience and to the conference theme  Aims of symposium and research questions of individual presentations are clear  Symposium and presentations form a coherent whole and are linked or show evidence of collaboration/dialogue between different research teams  Methods described are rigorous and appropriate to research question  Appropriate conclusions are drawn from each individual presentation  Implications for counselling and psychotherapy research and practice are discussed

The terms and conditions:

 Please read the 2018 submission guidelines

 Your submission If you do not receive an acknowledgement after emailing your submission within seven days, please telephone the research office on 01455 883318. We cannot take responsibility for abstracts that do not reach us; it is the responsibility of the sender to ensure that an acknowledgement is received. Submissions must reach us by: Friday 3 November 2017

 Programme scheduling By submitting to the BACP Research Conference, authors agree to be scheduled at any time on either day of the conference.

 Firm commitment to attend Following the peer review process, acceptance of an invitation to present is a firm commitment by you to attend and participate at the conference. Once the programme is drawn up, it is difficult to accommodate late withdrawal and can incur cost to BACP. Payment for conference attendance must be complete before the programme goes to print. It is the responsibility of each presenter to book and pay for their conference place in good time. If you are unable to present having accepted the invitation, please let us know as soon as possible so we can minimise disruption to the programme.

 Your contact details If you present at the conference, your name, the names of your co-presenters and co- authors, your email address, affiliation and workplace/and or place of study, will appear on your abstract, in the PDF abstract booklet and on the BACP website.

 BACP reserves the right to amend and correct spellings and errors etc in abstracts used for the conference.

 Copyright Issues If you are invited to present your work at the BACP Research Conference, your abstract will appear in the conference abstract booklet and it will also go on to the BACP website, post conference. It is the author / presenter’s responsibility to ensure that no copyright laws are breached in terms of intellectual property and authors, and that the work is their own. BACP bears no responsibility for any breach of copyright.

 Disclaimer 3 Symposia submission BACP Research Conference May 2018 Counselling changes lives: research that impacts practice

The BACP Research Conference provides a forum for the exchange of research information between members and non-members alike, both of whom are welcome to present and/or attend. The conference is open to anybody to present their research if they fulfil the reviewing criteria. This conference is a not for profit event. Views expressed in any presentation are the views of the presenter and / or their organisation and are not necessarily those of BACP. Inclusion in the programme does not imply endorsement of the research or of the presenter’s views and BACP take no responsibility in guaranteeing its quality. Any queries in relation to the official approval / appropriateness of any research presented at this conference should be directed to the authors / presenters; BACP bears no responsibility in this regard.

By submitting to the BACP Research Conference you are agreeing with the Terms and Conditions above.

Submission form

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Please complete the following questions and email with your abstract to [email protected] with ‘your name and ‘2018 SYMPOSIUM submission’ in the subject title.

Symposium organiser’s name:

Symposium organiser’s email address for correspondence and for inclusion on the published abstract:

Telephone number (for our office use only, not for publication):

Who granted ethical approval for this study?

Have you presented at a conference before?

Are you a student?

If so, what qualification are you working towards; eg, Diploma, Masters, Bachelor’s degree etc?

If a student, what modality are you training in; eg, Person-centred, psychodynamic counselling etc?

Please include a list of names and email addresses for each person presenting in your symposium.

Symposium Overview presenter:

Symposium Presenter paper 1:

Please complete your overview and symposium abstracts using the abstract templates below.

Abstract submission form

Presenter(s): 5 Symposia submission BACP Research Conference May 2018 Counselling changes lives: research that impacts practice

Other Author(s):

Professional Role (lead presenter only): Institution/Affiliation: Email:

ABSTRACT: Symposium Overview

Five Keywords:

Title:

The aims of the symposium:

Contribution of each symposium paper to the overall theme:

Implications of the symposium theme for counselling and psychotherapy theory, research and practice:

Name of the symposium discussant: (if you intend to have one)

Please include the word count (minus title and subheadings)

Submission form to be used for each additional symposium paper presentation

Presenter(s): Other Author(s):

Professional Role (lead presenter of this paper only): Institution/Affiliation: Email:

ABSTRACT: Symposium paper number: (add sequence number as appropriate)

Five Keywords:

Title:

Aim/Purpose:

Design/Methodology:

Results/Findings:

Research Limitations:

Conclusions/Implications (including implications to practice):

Please include the word count (minus title and subheadings)