Qualitative Research Approaches For Psychotherapy Reflexivity Methodology And Criticality | Research Methods

Qualitative Research Approaches for Psychotherapy offers the reader a range of current qualitative research approaches congruent with the values and practices of psychotherapy itself: experience-based reflective contextualized and critical. This volume contains 14 compelling challenging new essays from authors in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres writing from a range of theoretical and cultural perspectives. The book covers both established and emerging approaches to qualitative research in this field beginning with case study ending with postqualitative and with hermeneutic reflexive psychosocial Talanoa queer feminist critical race theory heuristic grounded theory authoethnographic poetic and collaborative writing approaches in between. These chapters introduce and explore the complexity of the specific research approach its assumptions challenges ethics and potentials including examples from the authors’ own research therapeutic practice and life. The book is not a ‘how to’ guide to methods but rather a stimulus for psychotherapy researchers to think and feel their way differently into their research endeavours. This book will be an invaluable resource to postgraduate students practitioners and established researchers in psychotherapy who are undertaking (or considering) qualitative research for their projects. It will also appeal to course tutors and trainers looking for a volume around which to structure a qualitative research methods course. |Qualitative Research Approaches for Psychotherapy Reflexivity Methodology and Criticality | Research Methods