Identity-Centred Communication
Practitioner course 1 of 6. How communication protects, strengthens or unintentionally damages another person's identity, and how to hold a conversation when identity is under pressure.
This page shows what the AURIS research records actually hold behind this course: the coded themes it draws on, the research projects it belongs to and the publications that carry the argument. Nothing is listed here that is not already recorded elsewhere.
Interviews
Programme position: 44 transcribed and coded interviews, owner-reported as of 11 October 2026; target 108. This figure is pending verification against the interview register.
See the full research progressThemes behind this course
No coded theme in the interview log names the same ground as this course yet. Coding is under way, and themes will appear here once they are recorded. We do not list themes we cannot show the work behind.
What the course record states
This course teaches established psychological and communication principles, each traced to a named published source, and then uses the AURIS Framework as the method for applying them in practice. The sources support the underlying principles. They do not validate the AURIS Framework, and the course does not claim that they do. Verified sources used across the six lessons: McAdams (2001), narrative identity, https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.5.2.100 Tausczik and Pennebaker (2010), language and psychological state, https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X09351676 Levenson and Gottman (1983), physiological linkage in conversation, https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.45.3.587 Levenson and Gottman (1985), arousal and conversation outcome, https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.49.1.85 Schwabe and Wolf (2009), stress and habitual responding, https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0979-09.2009 Arnsten (2009), acute stress and prefrontal function, https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2648 Loftus (2005), malleability of memory, https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.94705 Deffenbacher and colleagues (2004), high stress and eyewitness memory, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10979-004-0565-x Butler and Randall (2013), emotional co-regulation, https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073912451630 Jussim and Harber (2005), expectancy effects and their limits, https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0902_3 Nickerson (1998), confirmation bias, https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.2.2.175 Clement and colleagues (2015), stigma and help-seeking, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291714000129 Lilienfeld (2007), harm from psychological treatment, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2007.00029.x Also used: Glynn, Christenfeld and Gerin (2002), rumination and delayed cardiovascular recovery, https://doi.org/10.1097/01.PSY.0000031574.42041.23; Neumann and colleagues (2004), attention shift and cardiac recovery, https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.23.6.631; Heavey, Christensen and Malamuth (1995), withdrawal during conflict and later outcomes, https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-006X.63.5.797 No claim in this course now rests on practice guidance presented as research. The former twenty-minute pause figure has been removed and replaced with the evidence-supported principle that a break works when attention comes off the trigger. This course is not drawn from AURIS's own interview study. Where a case is described it is a composite consistent with AURIS delivery, with no participant names, quotes or timestamps.
Research projects
No published research project record names the same ground as this course yet.
See the research calendarPublications
- Identity After the Uniform: What the Evidence Tells Me, Where the Gaps Are, and What I'm Doing Next
The wider evidence base, findings from 42 of a planned 108 coded interviews at publication (21 September 2026), the current evidence strength of the AURIS framework, and the gaps still open in this work.
- Why AURIS Exists: The Evidence for Identity-Focused Support After the Uniform
AURIS White Paper Vol 5: the evidence base for the Identity After the Uniform programme, with a Trafford Veterans CIC case study.
- State of the Evidence
A draft audit of the AURIS evidence base: what is verified, what is not, and where the gaps sit.