Relational-centred Research for Psychotherapists Exploring Meanings and Experience
by Finlay, Linda; Evans, KenEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-10-12
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary
An accessible, practical introduction to carrying out qualitative research in psychotherapy and counselling for practitioners who want or who are required to contribute to the profession's evidence base. Gives clear guidance on how to set up and conduct small scale research that is based in clinical practice Assumes no prior knowledge of qualitative research and is aimed specifically at psychotherapists Recognises development of the evidence base for psychotherapy through qualitative research as a key objective for practitioners
Author Biography
Linda Finlay teachers Psychology with the Open University, UK, and is an Academic Consultant offering training and mentorship on qualitative research in health care. She is currently working towards registration as an Integrative psychotherapist. She has published widely on topics relating to psychosocial occupational therapy, group work and qualitative research. Ken Evans is a registered Gestalt and Integrative psychotherapist. He is co-director of the European Institute for Psychotherapeutic Studies, an institute that provides a range of continued professional development workshops for graduate therapists as well as training programmes in clinical supervision, psychotherapy research, and organizational consultancy.
Table of Contents
| About the Editors | p. vii |
| Contributing Authors | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Engaging Qualitative Research and the Relational-centred Approach | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Qualitative Relational-centred Research: A 'Voyage of Discovery' | p. 3 |
| Competing Qualitative Research Traditions | p. 13 |
| Embodied Co-creation: Theory and Values for Relational Research | p. 29 |
| Challenging 'Evidence-based Practice' | p. 45 |
| Quality in Qualitative Relational-centred Research | p. 59 |
| Relational-centred Research: Being and Doing | p. 69 |
| Introduction | p. 69 |
| Setting Up Research | p. 71 |
| The Research Encounter: Co-creating your Data | p. 87 |
| Embracing Relational Research: Learning from Therapy | p. 107 |
| Engaging 'Process' | p. 127 |
| Analysis of Data | p. 145 |
| Relational Ethics | p. 159 |
| Becoming a Relational Researcher | p. 175 |
| Relational-centred Research in Action | p. 183 |
| Introduction | p. 183 |
| 'My Heart was Killing Me': A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of Anger | p. 185 |
| A Therapist's Portrait of a Clinical Encounter with a Somatizer | p. 197 |
| Relating through Difference: A Critical Narrative Analysis | p. 213 |
| A Journey into Survival and Coping by Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse | p. 227 |
| References | p. 241 |
| Index | p. 259 |
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