D Charura
Biographic Data
| ID | 51450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Charura |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Charura |
| SIGNATURE | CHARURA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | York St John University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3509-9392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transitioning in and out of Autistic Flow
A Comprehensive Scoping Review of the Literature on Routine Outcome Measures in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Developing Core Competences for Working Therapeutically With People With Dementia and Their Families
Exploring the Use of the Best Possible Self Technique for Anxiety Reduction
Initial research, within the field of cognition and positive psychology, demonstrates the benefits of future thinking interventions such as the best possible self-technique (BPS) for the treatment of anxiety-related distress. However, despite these promising findings, attempts to gather feedback on the use of future thinking techniques is scarce. Across three focus groups, the present paper aimed to explore the acceptability, sensitivity, and fea…
Intercultural Romantic Relationships
Numbers of intercultural romantic relationships are rising in the Western part of the world. However, there remains paucity in empirical evidence on how cultural differences impact those in intercultural romantic relationships. This study was conducted using qualitative methodology and involved a culturally diverse sample of 28 individuals who participated in semi-structured interviews. Interview data was analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysi…
Mental health practitioners’ perceptions of online working
A move to online therapy, observed in counselling courses within the UK during the global Covid-19 pandemic, prompted a research team of counselling educators to undertake a rapid literature review to explore the perceptions and experiences of video therapy internationally (PROSPERO 2020 CRD42020204705). Four databases (CINAHL, Medline, PsychInfo, and Web of Science) were searched using 25 keyword-phrases. Over half the research identified focuse…
Anxiety and Future-Self Clarity
Possible selves reflect one's hopes and fears for their future identity. Previous research shows that high anxiety is associated with clearer feared possible selves. However, the mechanism through which clarity could maintain anxiety is relatively unexplored as are questions concerning whether clarity of possible selves could offer new methods of reducing anxiety. The present article aimed to investigate if the relationship between clarity and an…
Therapists’ experience of working with refugees and asylum seekers who have been tortured
All practitioners communicated in some detail how their work with sanctuary seekers, who had experienced torture and presented with trauma, affected them to varying degrees. The research has led to recommendations, which include the prioritization of self-care, multicultural competencies, continual development, and ensuring the availability of appropriate professional supervision support as part of ethical trauma practice. (PsycInfo Database Reco…
Comprehensive scoping review of research on intercultural love and romantic relationships
Despite the growing evidence that the modern world is more diverse and so is the nature of relationships that present in therapy, there remains paucity of empirical evidence on how cultural differences impact those in intercultural romantic ties. We conducted this comprehensive scoping review with the aim to outline the size and scope of existing research in the field of intercultural love and romantic relationships. We utilised a five-stage scop…
Towards autistic flow theory
Flow states are heightened moments of concentration, motivation and enjoyment, leading to total absorption in the present moment. A striking parallel exists between flow states and phenomenological accounts of autistic daily life. We analyse the components of flow theory alongside autistic autobiographical accounts to explore similarities and differences, in doing so moving toward an understanding of autistic flow theory . We highlight the consid…
Anxiety, Self-Satisfaction and Self-Defining Events
Increasing self-satisfaction could reduce anxiety symptomology; however, strategies to enhance self-satisfaction are relatively unexplored. The primary aim of the present research was to examine the relationship between self-defining events (past and future), self-satisfaction, and anxiety. In total, 155 students (78.1% female, mean age = 20.54, SD = 5.49) were recruited from an English University. Participants were asked to record the content an…
Body mapping Refugees and asylum seekers’ perspectives of embodied trauma
With the population of displaced individuals reaching over 25 million people worldwide, exacerbated by recent humanitarian emergencies there is an urgent need to rapidly assess manifestations of trauma, with a focus on providing culturally informed methods for those in distress. The novel concept of 'embodied trauma' is body mapped and explicated using a sample of 13 displaced individuals in the United Kingdom. This study operationalises a qualit…
A Duoethnographic Study of Power and Privilege in the Psychotherapeutic Space
We are three psychotherapists, also trainers at different universities in the United Kingdom, who came together to explore the application of duoethnography as a research method in the context of counselling and psychotherapy. The focus of our dialogues was on privilege and power as experienced between client and therapist in the therapeutic relationship, mirroring the social worlds we each come from and return to. The article presented here is w…
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Medical Mistrust, and Mattering in Ethnically Diverse Communities
Refugees, asylum seekers, and practitioners’ perspectives of embodied trauma
Proposal of a clear definition of embodied trauma and key themes for future research including culturally informed care, psychosocial support, language considerations, relational belonging, and inclusion of sexual, spiritual, and existential factors, moving away from purely Westernized diagnoses and treatments towards culturally informed care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Effectiveness of counselling and psychotherapeutic interventions for people with dementia and their families
As there is currently no cure for dementia, providing psycho-social support is imperative. Counselling and psychotherapeutic interventions offer a way to provide individualised support for people with dementia and their families. However, to date, there has not been a systematic review examining the research evidence for these interventions. This review aimed to examine the following research questions: (1) Are counselling/psychotherapeutic inter…
A duoethnographic exploration of colonialism in the cultural layer of the objective psyche
Using a duoethnological approach, supported by Jung's theory of archetypes and the layered objective psyche, the paper demonstrates how a duoethnological encounter can lead to new formulations of archetypal theory that challenge attitudes to diversity. The paper arises from the authors' desire to explore the shame and pain of colonialism, initially in a diversity workshop and later by way of duoethnological dialogue, using transcripts of recorded…
Acceptability and feasibility study of a six-week person-centred, therapeutic visual art intervention for people with dementia
These findings indicate that engagement with visual art is effective for people with dementia, and taking into account the factors that impact on feasibility and acceptability will promote future robust evaluation
Ethnic Speech and Ethnic Action as Ethnic Behavior
This study sought to validate the Brunel Ethnic Behavior Inventory (BEBI) as a measure of two aspects of “doing” (i.e., ethnic speech and ethnic action) among the “ways of ethnicity” identified by Verkuyten. It also evaluates the construct validity of the BEBI alongside the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure-Revised (MEIM-R) and evaluates the BEBI and the MEIM-R (the latter of which measures exploration as “thinking” and commitment as “feeling” a…
Ethnic Speech and Ethnic Action as Ethnic Behavior
This article reports the construction of a new survey—specifically, the Brunel Ethnic Behavior Inventory (BEBI)—designed to measure ethnic speech and ethnic action as separate, yet related, aspects of individuals’ ethnic behavior. Using Tajfel’s social identity theory as a conceptual frame of reference, this study sought an answer to the research question of how many factors actually are measured by the BEBI, and tested the hypothesis that a two-…
Comprehensive scoping review of research on intercultural love and romantic relationships
Despite the growing evidence that the modern world is more diverse and so is the nature of relationships that present in therapy, there remains paucity of empirical evidence on how cultural differences impact those in intercultural romantic ties. We conducted this comprehensive scoping review with the aim to outline the size and scope of existing research in the field of intercultural love and romantic relationships. We utilised a five-stage scop…
Towards autistic flow theory
Flow states are heightened moments of concentration, motivation and enjoyment, leading to total absorption in the present moment. A striking parallel exists between flow states and phenomenological accounts of autistic daily life. We analyse the components of flow theory alongside autistic autobiographical accounts to explore similarities and differences, in doing so moving toward an understanding of autistic flow theory . We highlight the consid…
Body mapping Refugees and asylum seekers’ perspectives of embodied trauma
With the population of displaced individuals reaching over 25 million people worldwide, exacerbated by recent humanitarian emergencies there is an urgent need to rapidly assess manifestations of trauma, with a focus on providing culturally informed methods for those in distress. The novel concept of 'embodied trauma' is body mapped and explicated using a sample of 13 displaced individuals in the United Kingdom. This study operationalises a qualit…
A duoethnographic exploration of colonialism in the cultural layer of the objective psyche
Using a duoethnological approach, supported by Jung's theory of archetypes and the layered objective psyche, the paper demonstrates how a duoethnological encounter can lead to new formulations of archetypal theory that challenge attitudes to diversity. The paper arises from the authors' desire to explore the shame and pain of colonialism, initially in a diversity workshop and later by way of duoethnological dialogue, using transcripts of recorded…
Ethnic Speech and Ethnic Action as Ethnic Behavior
This study sought to validate the Brunel Ethnic Behavior Inventory (BEBI) as a measure of two aspects of “doing” (i.e., ethnic speech and ethnic action) among the “ways of ethnicity” identified by Verkuyten. It also evaluates the construct validity of the BEBI alongside the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure-Revised (MEIM-R) and evaluates the BEBI and the MEIM-R (the latter of which measures exploration as “thinking” and commitment as “feeling” a…
Ethnic Speech and Ethnic Action as Ethnic Behavior
This article reports the construction of a new survey—specifically, the Brunel Ethnic Behavior Inventory (BEBI)—designed to measure ethnic speech and ethnic action as separate, yet related, aspects of individuals’ ethnic behavior. Using Tajfel’s social identity theory as a conceptual frame of reference, this study sought an answer to the research question of how many factors actually are measured by the BEBI, and tested the hypothesis that a two-…
Acceptability and feasibility study of a six-week person-centred, therapeutic visual art intervention for people with dementia
These findings indicate that engagement with visual art is effective for people with dementia, and taking into account the factors that impact on feasibility and acceptability will promote future robust evaluation
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Medical Mistrust, and Mattering in Ethnically Diverse Communities
Refugees, asylum seekers, and practitioners’ perspectives of embodied trauma
Proposal of a clear definition of embodied trauma and key themes for future research including culturally informed care, psychosocial support, language considerations, relational belonging, and inclusion of sexual, spiritual, and existential factors, moving away from purely Westernized diagnoses and treatments towards culturally informed care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Effectiveness of counselling and psychotherapeutic interventions for people with dementia and their families
As there is currently no cure for dementia, providing psycho-social support is imperative. Counselling and psychotherapeutic interventions offer a way to provide individualised support for people with dementia and their families. However, to date, there has not been a systematic review examining the research evidence for these interventions. This review aimed to examine the following research questions: (1) Are counselling/psychotherapeutic inter…
A duoethnographic exploration of colonialism in the cultural layer of the objective psyche
Using a duoethnological approach, supported by Jung's theory of archetypes and the layered objective psyche, the paper demonstrates how a duoethnological encounter can lead to new formulations of archetypal theory that challenge attitudes to diversity. The paper arises from the authors' desire to explore the shame and pain of colonialism, initially in a diversity workshop and later by way of duoethnological dialogue, using transcripts of recorded…
Body mapping Refugees and asylum seekers’ perspectives of embodied trauma
With the population of displaced individuals reaching over 25 million people worldwide, exacerbated by recent humanitarian emergencies there is an urgent need to rapidly assess manifestations of trauma, with a focus on providing culturally informed methods for those in distress. The novel concept of 'embodied trauma' is body mapped and explicated using a sample of 13 displaced individuals in the United Kingdom. This study operationalises a qualit…
A Duoethnographic Study of Power and Privilege in the Psychotherapeutic Space
We are three psychotherapists, also trainers at different universities in the United Kingdom, who came together to explore the application of duoethnography as a research method in the context of counselling and psychotherapy. The focus of our dialogues was on privilege and power as experienced between client and therapist in the therapeutic relationship, mirroring the social worlds we each come from and return to. The article presented here is w…
Therapists’ experience of working with refugees and asylum seekers who have been tortured
All practitioners communicated in some detail how their work with sanctuary seekers, who had experienced torture and presented with trauma, affected them to varying degrees. The research has led to recommendations, which include the prioritization of self-care, multicultural competencies, continual development, and ensuring the availability of appropriate professional supervision support as part of ethical trauma practice. (PsycInfo Database Reco…
Comprehensive scoping review of research on intercultural love and romantic relationships
Despite the growing evidence that the modern world is more diverse and so is the nature of relationships that present in therapy, there remains paucity of empirical evidence on how cultural differences impact those in intercultural romantic ties. We conducted this comprehensive scoping review with the aim to outline the size and scope of existing research in the field of intercultural love and romantic relationships. We utilised a five-stage scop…
Towards autistic flow theory
Flow states are heightened moments of concentration, motivation and enjoyment, leading to total absorption in the present moment. A striking parallel exists between flow states and phenomenological accounts of autistic daily life. We analyse the components of flow theory alongside autistic autobiographical accounts to explore similarities and differences, in doing so moving toward an understanding of autistic flow theory . We highlight the consid…
Anxiety, Self-Satisfaction and Self-Defining Events
Increasing self-satisfaction could reduce anxiety symptomology; however, strategies to enhance self-satisfaction are relatively unexplored. The primary aim of the present research was to examine the relationship between self-defining events (past and future), self-satisfaction, and anxiety. In total, 155 students (78.1% female, mean age = 20.54, SD = 5.49) were recruited from an English University. Participants were asked to record the content an…
Intercultural Romantic Relationships
Numbers of intercultural romantic relationships are rising in the Western part of the world. However, there remains paucity in empirical evidence on how cultural differences impact those in intercultural romantic relationships. This study was conducted using qualitative methodology and involved a culturally diverse sample of 28 individuals who participated in semi-structured interviews. Interview data was analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysi…
Mental health practitioners’ perceptions of online working
A move to online therapy, observed in counselling courses within the UK during the global Covid-19 pandemic, prompted a research team of counselling educators to undertake a rapid literature review to explore the perceptions and experiences of video therapy internationally (PROSPERO 2020 CRD42020204705). Four databases (CINAHL, Medline, PsychInfo, and Web of Science) were searched using 25 keyword-phrases. Over half the research identified focuse…
Anxiety and Future-Self Clarity
Possible selves reflect one's hopes and fears for their future identity. Previous research shows that high anxiety is associated with clearer feared possible selves. However, the mechanism through which clarity could maintain anxiety is relatively unexplored as are questions concerning whether clarity of possible selves could offer new methods of reducing anxiety. The present article aimed to investigate if the relationship between clarity and an…
Transitioning in and out of Autistic Flow
A Comprehensive Scoping Review of the Literature on Routine Outcome Measures in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Developing Core Competences for Working Therapeutically With People With Dementia and Their Families
Exploring the Use of the Best Possible Self Technique for Anxiety Reduction
Initial research, within the field of cognition and positive psychology, demonstrates the benefits of future thinking interventions such as the best possible self-technique (BPS) for the treatment of anxiety-related distress. However, despite these promising findings, attempts to gather feedback on the use of future thinking techniques is scarce. Across three focus groups, the present paper aimed to explore the acceptability, sensitivity, and fea…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works)