Qualitative Research in Counselling and PsychotherapyQualitative methods are particularly suited to answering the kinds of questions that counsellors and psychotherapists need to ask about their practice. Qualitative Research Methods in Counselling and Psychotherapy has therefore been written to help researchers find their way through the range of methodologies and techniques available to them. Leading expert, and best selling author John McLeod takes the reader through each stage of the research process, explaining techniques for gathering data, writing up the study and evaluating the findings. Each qualitative method is clearly described and critically assessed in terms of its own strengths and weaknesses. Examples from actual research studies are given to show how |
Contents
1 Qualitative Inquiry and the Reconstruction of Counselling and Psychotherapy | 1 |
2 The Relevance and Contribution of Hermeneutics | 21 |
3 The Phenomenological Approach | 35 |
the Core of Qualitative Method | 54 |
5 Ethnographic Approaches to Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy | 64 |
6 Using Grounded Theory | 70 |
7 The Analysis of Conversation Discourse and Narrative | 90 |
8 Qualitative Inquiry as Bricolage | 119 |
9 How to do Qualitative Research | 130 |
10 The Role of Qualitative Methods in Outcome Research | 161 |
11 Critical Issues in the Use of Qualitative Inquiry | 181 |
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