Tom Kent
tompsy.bsky.social
Tom Kent
@tompsy.bsky.social
Lecturer @Royal Holloway, U. of London & Clinical Psychologist. Interested in psychological therapy, LGBQ, research, social history, etc. Own views.
The potential overturning of conversion therapy bans highlights something wider: therapy isn’t “anything goes.”
We don’t just say or practise whatever we think or believe — our work is guided by evidence, ethics, and professional standards.
#SCOTUS #therapy
October 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
One of Paul Flowers’ concluding points in his keynote was the importance of supporting the next generation of qualitative researchers. I think mentorship from more experienced researchers is very advantageous—not only for early career success in academia, but also for achieving impact #qmip2025
July 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In his keynote, Paul Flowers highlighted the use of logic models—within qualitative intervention development—as a key tool for building team consensus, supporting theorising, and shaping commissioning briefs. #qmip2025
July 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Michael Larkin also discusses AI in qualitative analysis. Similar to Virginia Braun’s points, "we" are the instrument of analysis. AI simply identifies topics that are spoken about; it is not performing analysis, and we need to resist the idea that AI is doing an analysis #qmip2025
July 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Concluding that the question is more about whether we should use it than whether we can use it.
July 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
🌈 Supervising a study on avoided topics in therapy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) individuals.
💬 When developing the study idea, LGBQ participants told us: “what was left unsaid mattered most.”
🔁 Please repost to support this research.
June 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM