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The use of surveys within counselling and psychotherapy is becoming an increasingly important tool used both by professional bodies canvassing their members’ opinions and by researchers studying treatment efficacy and client outcomes. Surveys are key in driving organisational change within the therapy world and also in giving clients a voice about their experience of treatment and therapy. This chapter offers an introduction to how surveys work and how to construct them, and allows practitioners to be able to assess the relevance and validity of survey-based information, as well as how to design surveys for their own research activity.
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Estimate based on BACP-accredited membership of approximately 11,000 plus UKCP membership of approximately 9000 (Source BACP and UKCP).
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McBeath, A. (2020). Doing Quantitative Research with a Survey. In: Bager-Charleson, S., McBeath, A. (eds) Enjoying Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55127-8_10
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