Since its inception, Counselling and Psychotherapy has emerged as a premier institution in Scotland for postgraduate education, training, and research in Counselling Studies. Our Research Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia (ECRED) ECRED are an interdisciplinary group of dementia researchers, people with dementia, dementia practitioners and representatives from a range of dementia organisations who are interested in exploring and developing theories, methods and impact around the experience of living with dementia. Find out more Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry (CCRI) CCRI fosters innovative qualitative research that places the relational at its heart. Key to the vision for the Centre is that it develop the ‘creative-relational’ as a dynamic conceptual frame for vibrant, incisive research. Find out more Current Research in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences A Public Inconvenience Art is Everywhere bold Counselling People with Dementia Dance for Dementia Drugs Research Network for Scotland ‘He kept me safe’: a performance on intimate partner violence IMAGINED INCLUDED Nigeria-Scotland Arts Exchange PATHS Research Group Public Health, Humanities and Magical Realism REALITIES in Health Disparities Showing the Way Stories of Empowerment Suicide in/as Politics Suicide Cultures: Reimagining Suicide Research The ECREDibles The ‘New Dementia’: Widening Choices for People with Dementia The Smarties Thistledown Project Our Programmes The discipline has played a pivotal role in advancing counselling as a professional endeavor, whilst also developing a robust research programme to help shape the future of counselling practice. We have a longstanding commitment to original empirical and theoretical research that engages critically with the practices of counselling and psychotherapy, and we are especially keen to encourage research concerned with the interface between counselling, psychotherapy and social, cultural and political life, and research that draws directly on practitioners’ own therapeutic work. Our postgraduate taught programmes are based on a dialogue between the person-centred approach, located within the humanistic tradition, and psychodynamic perspectives, located within the psychoanalytic tradition. Find out more about: Undergraduate Programmes MA (Hons) Health in Social Science Postgraduate Taught Programmes Doctorate in Psychotherapy and Counselling Master of Counselling Master of Counselling (Interpersonal Dialogue) MSc Counselling Studies MSc International Counselling and Cross-Cultural Counselling Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Studies Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Postgraduate Research Programmes MScR Counselling Studies MScR Health Humanities and Arts PhD Counselling Studies PhD Health in Social Science
