Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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Ashley Morgan is the 2026 CPCAB Counselling Research Award for his paper "How does psychiatric diagnosis and the language of ‘disorder’ shape humanistic counselling practice? A reflexive thematic analysis" The research investigates the language of psychiatric diagnosis and ‘disorder’, finding that medicalised labels can pull humanistic therapists away from their core principles. It concludes that there are gaps in counselling training that may lead to defensive or incongruent practice.

00:00 Introduction & Research Paper Title
00:37 Inspiration & Personal Motivation
05:26 Tensions in Humanistic and Medical Models
10:00 Therapist Attitudes and Incongruence
17:11 Psychiatric Discourse in the Therapy Room
23:10 Training, Knowledge, and Understanding
28:46 Resistance to Psychiatric Discourse
39:07 Therapeutic Pessimism and Clinical Impact
44:10 Recommendations for Training & Reflexivity
54:19 Research Impact on Practice & Conclusion