Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Our postgraduate community
Naomi de Graff outlines her project.
'Developing therapeutic alliance in speech and language therapy practice'
Naomi de Graff
"My PhD research explores the client-therapist connection and the importance of developing therapeutic alliance in speech and language therapy practice. My initial qualitative study generates a narrative voicing how therapeutic alliance development is perceived by experienced speech and language therapists. The research findings lead to a further study using video reflexive ethnography with speech and language therapy students to evaluate how they advance their relational practice skills to support developing therapeutic alliance."