About Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works

Subject
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works (formerly Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology) is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 25,800 pages of material, including more than 8,000 pages of session transcripts, more than 9,000 pages of client narratives, and more than 7,000 pages of secondary reference material.

Sources
Some of the counseling and therapy session transcripts included in the collection were transcribed by the therapists themselves for their records or as part of clinical research studies. Others were transcribed as part of this project by professional transcriptionists, trained both in transcription techniques and in standards of confidentiality. The sessions themselves have been recorded in a variety of formats, including video, reel-to-reel tape, analogue cassette, and digital formats. As is usually the case when dealing with older recordings, in some cases, audibility of the speakers is sometimes an issue.

Provider
Alexander Street Press

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Revised: 01/10/2008.