Completed ISA Projects
An Exploration of the Long-Term Experience of Trauma upon Clinicians' Identity
Selwyn Black (PhD, University of Ulster)
In the 'new paradigm' of psychotraumatology, there is little research with clinicians who have themselves become traumatised as a result of their work with traumatised clients. In order to protect clients, clinicians, and the relevant professions, there is an ethical imperative to acknowledge and address the issue of clinicians' traumatic experience that emanates from working with traumatised clients.
The efficacy of community reconciliation projects for identity redefinition in young people in Northern Ireland
Fiona Bloomer (PhD, University of Ulster)
The study explored the identity redefinition of young Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, as a result of their participation in a reconciliation programme.
An exploration of the utility of Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) in the evaluation of the psychological processes underlying personality disorders
Anne Malone (BSc, University of Ulster)
This study involved an exploration of the utility of Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) in the evaluation of the psychological processes underlying personality disorders. A small-scale idiographic design was employed in order to detect the specific underlying identity processes that might be characteristic of manifestations of personality disorder in general, using a customised identity instrument.
Ethno-Religious Identities: An Identity Structure Analysis of Clergy in Ireland, North and South
Nathalie Rougier (PhD, University of Ulster)
The study investigates clergy's construal, appraisal and redefinition of ethno-religious identity in Ireland. Informed by theoretical insights from Self and Identity research, contemporary debates in the sociopsychological approach of Ethnicity and Religion - and using Identity Structure Analysis as its framework of reference.
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