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.
Edited by:
Keith Tudor,
Jonathan Wyatt
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032249483
ISBN 10: 103224948X
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 03 July 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Into the Thick of It: Troubling Case Studies and Researching Close to Therapeutic Practice 2. Hermeneutic Phenomenology: Exploring and Making Meaning of Lived Experience in Psychotherapy Research 3. Using Performative Meta-Reflexivity in Psychotherapy Research 4. A Psychosocial Coming into Play: Researching Authenticity in Therapy, The Academy, and Friendship 5. Feminist Research in Psychotherapy: The Strange Case of The United Kingdom’s ‘Hostile Environment’ Policy 6. Critical Race Theory: A Methodology for Research in Psychotherapy 7. Pasifika Research Methodologies and Psychotherapy 8. Queering Psychotherapy Research: Collaborative Autoethnography and Fossicking 9. Critical Heuristics in Psychotherapy Research: From ‘I Who Feels’ to ‘We Who Care—and Act’ 10. Keeping It Real: Grounded Theory for a Profession on the Brink 11. Researching from the Inside: Using Autoethnography to Produce Ethical Research from Within Psychotherapy Practice 12. (Re)searching Poetically: Poetic Inquiry in Psychotherapy 13. Putting Ourselves in the Picture: Phototherapy, Collaborative Writing, and Psychotherapy Research 14. From Post-Qualitative Inquiry Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry in (And Beyond) the Education/Training of Therapists 15. Re-Searching Research: Reflections on Contributions to Qualitative and Post-Qualitative Research
Keith Tudor is Professor of Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Aotearoa New Zealand, where he is also Co-Lead of the AUT Group for Research in the Psychological Therapies. He is the editor of Claude Steiner, Emotional Activist (2020), and the author of Conscience and Critic (2017), both published by Routledge. Jonathan Wyatt is Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and a Co-Director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His book, Therapy, Stand-up, and the Gesture of Writing: Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry, published by Routledge, won the 2020 ICQI Book Award.
Reviews for Qualitative Research Approaches for Psychotherapy: Reflexivity, Methodology, and Criticality
I cherish this book as a powerful and much needed tool of decolonisation. The contributors offer insightful chapters that can help us push back against the tokenism, methodolatry, and perspective-less abstractions of mainstream qualitative research. I felt inspired as I read on and connected with the promise of soulful research that sees the intrapsychic alongside the interpersonal, sociocultural, and political. I can't wait to share this book with my students (undergraduate and doctorate alike) who are thirsty for scholarship that honours depth and brings psychotherapy practice closer to their research endeavours -- Dr Miltiades Hadjiosif, Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, University of the West of England, USA
