Developments in Qualitative Psychotherapy Research

ISBN-13: 9781138614031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 334 str.

Del Loewenthal; Evrinomy Avdi

Opis

This book reflects the diversity that characterizes the developing field of qualitative psychotherapy research, presenting practice-based research carried out in different clinical settings, from different perspectives, and in different sociocultural contexts. The wide range of research projects provide developments in counselling and psychotherapy qualitative research approaches, and are further critiqued in chapters written by key practitioners in the field of qualitative research. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I  1. Interventions in everyday lives: How clients use psychotherapy outside their sessions  2. Eating disorders in the course of life: A qualitative approach to vital change  3. Exploring the meaning in meaningful coincidences: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of synchronicity in therapy  4. Mirroring patients – or not. A study of general practitioners and psychiatrists and their interactions with patients with depression  5. The person-centred approach as an ideological discourse: a discourse analysis of person-centred counsellors’ accounts on their way of being  6. Reading qualitative research  7. Whose voice are we hearing, really?  Part II  8. Therapeutic community for children with diagnosis of psychosis: What place for parents? The relation between subject and the institutional ‘Other’  9. Hurting and healing in therapeutic environments: How can we understand the role of the relational context?  10. Mental health care and educational actions: From institutional exclusion to subjective development  11. Displaying agency problems at the outset of psychotherapy  12. How do people cope with post traumatic distress after an accident? The role of psychological, social and spiritual coping in Malaysian Muslim patients  13. Communities, psychotherapeutic innovation and the diversity of international qualitative research in mental health  14. Everyday life, manifesto-writing and the texture of human agency  Part III  15. ‘Not dead … abandoned’ – a clinical case study of childhood and combat-related trauma  16. A shift in narratives: From ‘attachment’ to ‘belonging’ in therapeutic work with adoptive families. A single case study  17. Critical incidents in mental health units may be better understood and managed with a Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalytic framework  18. The impact of professional role on working with risk in a home treatment team  19. From victimhood to sisterhood part II – Exploring the possibilities of transformation and solidarity in qualitative research  20. ‘Let me in! A comment on insider research’  21. The researcher in the field – some notes on qualitative research in mental health