Qualitative Research
Interview, focus-group and survey-based qualitative studies across settings. 45 records.
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Therapists in the Post-Pandemic World
The COVID-19 pandemic drove an unprecedented transformation in the delivery of psychological therapies. This study investigates practitioners who transitioned to online modalities.
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‘You are an Oddity’
Research specifically focusing on men struggling with binge eating disorder (BED) is limited. This qualitative study explored men’s experiences and understanding of BED.
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Exploring service users, families, and professionals’ experiences with Open Dialogue in a Portuguese psychosocial rehabilitation unit
Open Dialogue is a collaborative approach that emphasizes the involvement of the person at the center of concern, their family, and professionals in network meetings.
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Creative engagement with the voices of person-centred therapists: Using poetic illuminations to overcome data fragmentation and to highlight the nuances of lived experience
Increasingly, creative forms of data representation are being utilised within qualitative research as a way of gaining deep, varied and nuanced knowledge of a phenomenon.
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Reflecting on qualitative survey psychotherapy research: A feminist phronetic case study
This reflective commentary offers a case study of being an experienced qualitative researcher conducting psychotherapy research as a novice practitioner.
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How female therapists and their patients deal with being a disputable, unimaginable, or occasional Swede: Explorations of similarity of nonprivilege
In this qualitative study, conducted in Sweden, the authors investigated therapists' experiences of therapeutic dyads in which both therapist and patient identified with a non-normative ethnicity or migration experience.
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“Feeling at home” or not? A qualitative investigation into therapists’ experienced congruence between their personal self and their professional role
Research suggests that conducting psychotherapy successfully involves an integration of professional and personal knowledge on the part of the psychotherapist.
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Conducting psychotherapeutic research with Free Association Narrative Interview
This is a reflexive, first person account of a doctoral journey addressing key junctions and critical decisions in choosing methodology.
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A comparison between the concepts of Heuristic Enquiry and Tazkiyat-un-nafs
This article offers a comparison between concepts of heuristic enquiry and tazkiyat-un-nafs, the Islamic concept of self/soul purification and/or reformation of the spiritual heart (qalb).
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Reflexivity woven through qualitative health research: A researcher's experience
Engaging in a qualitative, autobiographical research project as a nurse researcher provided a place and space to explore reflexive ways of being.
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Qualitative Research: The “good,” the “bad,” the “ugly”
This article explores what constitutes “Good,” “Bad,” and “Ugly” qualitative research towards more fully appreciating the nature and vision of its project.
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A balancing act – Therapists’ experiences of conducting psychotherapy with psychosis clients
This study aimed to explore therapists’ experiences of providing therapy for people with a history of psychosis and examine the role played by psychotic symptoms in therapy. Interviews with 10 therapists were conducted and analyzed thematically using…
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Exploring fathers' experience of their first child's early years: Representations versus reality
This qualitative study explored fathers’ lived experience and meanings of being a first-time father in the United Kingdom. Seven fathers were interviewed, and the data were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA).
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How storytelling impacts students in their psychotherapy training
The use and impact of storytelling in counselling and psychotherapy training was explored using a mixed-methods approach. An online survey completed by 30 therapists and 12 counselling tutors produced both quantitative and qualitative data.
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Learning to end: Trainee therapists’ experiences of imposed therapeutic endings
The aim of the study was to explore trainee therapists’ experiences of imposing therapy endings with their clients, where endings were imposed by the conclusion of training.
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The qualitative evidence-base of relationally-orientated therapy: A critical celebration
In this article, I celebrate and critique the evidence base for relationally-orientated therapy.
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Personal and relational ideologies of master therapists
This original study used a descriptive and interpretative qualitative approach to analyse interview data from twelve world renowned master therapists and academics.
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The Reflective Online Practitioner Survey: The value in harvesting both qualitative and quantitative data
Two research projects are reported which describe how carefully designed online surveys can generate considerable quantities of both quantitative and qualitative data.
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Therapists’ experiences with mentalization-based treatment for avoidant personality disorder
Recent research points to significant mentalizing difficulties in individuals with avoidant personality disorder (AvPD). This study contributes to an understanding of the therapeutic issues such work might entail.
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Facilitating psychotherapy with patient-made videos: A qualitative study of patient experiences
We have developed a method utilizing video material to facilitate the psychotherapeutic process, called VideoTalk, using schema therapy as a theoretical framework.
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A roadmap to recovery and a life worth living: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of adolescent experiences of dialectical behaviour therapy in child and adolescent mental health services
This research explores adolescents’ lived experience of 24 weeks of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) within child and adolescent mental health services.
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Therapists’ lived experience of self-disclosure
The impact and challenges of therapist self-disclosure on the disclosing therapist was explored using Reflexive Thematic Analysis of five interviews with integrative psychotherapists.
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The emotional impact of research: A reflexive account of a counsellor-turned-PhD researcher’s experience of vicarious trauma
This article presents a personal and reflexive account of a counsellor-turned-researcher who experienced vicarious trauma and its impact on counselling-related PhD research.
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Reflexivity and an Arts-based Inquiry during Covid-19 times
This paper examines the role of reflexivity and arts-based activities as a medium for reflexivity during Covid-19 times.
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“You’ve got children haven’t you…?”: Involuntary childlessness as a neglected aspect of therapist diversity in the professional context
In a previous article we detailed the findings of a qualitative research project into the lived experience of qualified involuntary childless therapists and showed how this connected to work with clients in the therapy room.
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Wounded healer therapists: A legacy of developmental trauma
My research asks, 'what impact might a personal history of complex developmental trauma have on a counsellor’s experience of, and work with, traumatised clients?' Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 6 experienced therapists.
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“I’ve got this hole…”: Experiences of therapist involuntary childlessness with clients in therapeutic practice
Little has been written on how therapists experience their practice in relation to involuntary childlessness.
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An exploration of the unassisted gravity dream
Flying dreams are termed ‘gravity dreams,’ along with dreams that include falling, climbing, descending and floating. Phenomenological studies looking at flying dreams are scarce.
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Being seduced: Trainee therapists’ reactions to and handling of client sexual attraction in therapy
This study explored how trainee therapists react to and handle client sexual attraction in their work. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 trainees.
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Walking in Quicksand: An exploration of trainee’s experience of a five day residential training workshop
In June 2013, sixteen Integrative psychotherapy trainees attended a five day residential training workshop to introduce them to qualitative research.
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Patients’ thoughts on effective psychotherapy
Earlier studies identify relationship factors as significant for patients. This grounded theory study explored in depth patients’ thoughts on effective psychotherapy.
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Clients’ experiences of psychodynamic therapies: A phenomenological study
This study aimed to explore clients’ experiences of psychodynamic therapies. Six adults were interviewed about their experiences of psychodynamic/brief psychodynamic therapy at varying stages of the process. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis with peer…
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Renewing Experience - Therapists’ Thoughts on What is Effective in Psychotherapy
In this qualitative study, nine psychotherapists with different theoretical approaches were interviewed about their thoughts on what is effective in their work. Data was analyzed according to Grounded Theory.
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“It’s because of what we did that I’m going to university”: A qualitative exploration of the experience of growing through a school’s therapeutic programme
This study aimed to ‘give voice’ to the lived experience and perceptions of seven students who have used a therapeutic service in school.
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Lived Experience of a Permanent Rupture Between Mother and Daughter
This research explores the lived experience of the rupture in the relationship between Jenny (a pseudonym) and her mother. In a relational-centred research interview, Jenny shares her experience of the rupture and her relationship after it.
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Nicknames: A qualitative exploration into the effect of nick-names on personal histories
This piece of qualitative research explores the impact of nicknames upon the researchers, and how nicknames can disturb or benefit contact on the Gestalt Cycle.
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Construction of anger in one successful case of psychodynamic-interpersonal psychotherapy: Problem (re)formulation and the negotiation of moral context
This paper provides a worked exemplar of psychotherapy research using conversation analysis inspired discourse analysis, exploring its usefulness for qualitative psychotherapy research.
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To be, or not to be… registered: A relational-phenomenological exploration of what State Registration means to psychotherapists
Little qualitative research has been carried out on psychotherapists’ perspectives on statutory regulation and the personal meanings they bring to the debate about professional registration.
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The Effect of Doing Qualitative Research on Novice Researchers
This study investigates the effect of doing qualitative research on novice researchers, applying the heuristic approach to reports given by six novice researchers.
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A Phenomenological Exploration of the Loss of a Parent in Childhood
We investigated how the death of a parent, in childhood, represents a profound psychological insult. Data collection involved a one-time semi-structured interview.
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A Study to Explore the Emergence of Shadow Phenomena in Integrative Psychotherapy Training Institutes
This article takes the reader through a process of qualitative research examining the role of shadow, explored from the perspective of psychotherapy training institutes.
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Gestalt Research with informants
Gestalt qualitative research is seen as an intersubjective process between researcher and informant, which raises ethical questions about inherent power.
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An experiential approach to teaching qualitative research
A phenomenological exploration of the experience of teaching research experientially, via an exploration of shame among Gestalt therapists in several European countries.
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Before and After: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Impact of a Four-Year Training in Gestalt Psychotherapy on Gestalt Psychotherapists
A phenomenological and qualitative exploration into how a group of gestalt psychotherapists in Norway had been impacted by their training.
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Parallel Process in Supervision: A qualitative investigation
This study explored the phenomenon of parallel process as experienced by a group of four Gestalt and integrative counsellors and psychotherapists and four supervisors.