Research Methodology
Papers whose main contribution is about how qualitative psychotherapy research is done: design, analysis, rigour and evaluation. 40 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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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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Falling into Glăveanu’s Gap: A lyric essay searching for resilience through creativity
This paper is in two parts comprising a literature review and a creative, non-fiction, lyric essay format to explore interplay between ambivalent emotions, creativity, and resilience.
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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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Hermeneutic Existential Phenomenology as a psychotherapeutic and philosophical attunement to educate novice researchers
This paper develops a hermeneutic existential phenomenological (HEP) approach to the research education of novice researchers.
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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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Reflecting on my reflexivity within a constructivist grounded theory study on team coaching: A short report
This short report shares my experiences as a doctoral student when engaging reflexivity in my research and, in particular, when grappling with constructivist grounded theory methodology and carrying out data generation.
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Researching experiences of skin cancer patients: An intersubjective reflexive exploration of learning to feel comfortable in my ‘skin’ as a practitioner-researcher
This paper offers two parallel explorations, the first an expression of my experience of becoming “seen” as a practitioner-researcher.
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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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A Heuristic Inquiry into my use of Theraplay® with children experiencing the impact of relational and developmental trauma
In this paper, I share my process of conducting doctoral research using Heuristic Inquiry as a practising Theraplay® counsellor working with children experiencing relational and developmental trauma.
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Views about mixed methods research from counselling and psychotherapy research students and supervisors
How do students and supervisors who are actively involved in the process of research view and experience mixed methods research? This study explores their views, based on a survey reaching 125 respondents.
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“Disclosing the innermost part”: Exploring therapists’ constructions of shame using a story completion method
Previous research on shame has indicated that it can benefit or hinder the therapeutic process, depending on how it is understood and managed by therapists.
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A story of psychotherapy
A story of psychotherapy.
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Processing of Self-concept and Identity in Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder: Findings from a Content-Analytic Follow-up Study
We explored how five individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) perceived their self-concept over the 12 months after attending a psychoeducational intervention at a community mental health care centre.
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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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“Are you analysing me?” A story completion exploration of having a friend who is becoming a psychotherapist
Many assumptions and myths about the role and identity of counsellors and psychotherapists persist. In this article, I explore how the therapist role may be viewed by a friend.
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Exploring whiteness in the context of anti-racist practice: A mixed methods survey
A growing body of evidence exposes the persistence of racism and inequality within the psychological professions.
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The transformative experience of finding a relational home with a psychotherapist
We explored the lived experience of finding a relational home in psychotherapy using a relational-centred, reflexive approach.
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Being a therapist, becoming a researcher: A collaborative autoethnography on the experiences of novice researchers
The aim of this study was to explore how four professionals, both therapists and academics, experienced the transition to becoming a researcher.
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Thematic Analysis: The ‘Good’, the ‘Bad’ and the ‘Ugly’
Thematic analyses can take multiple forms, some of them systematic, others intuitive. In practice, published research that involves thematic analysis comes in all sorts of shapes and styles.
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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 novice researcher and the phenomenological pilgrimage
The journey of a novice researcher can be a long and lonely road. This paper draws parallels between engaging in phenomenological research and psychotherapy practice.
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Stepping into the clearing: A researcher’s challenge to make sense of phenomenological philosophy
Philosophical texts have much to offer the phenomenological researcher, but can appear remote to novice researchers who are not versed in philosophy.
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“Much more than second best”: Therapists’ experiences of videoconferencing psychotherapy
This study employs phenomenologically-orientated Thematic Analysis to explore the lived experience of integrative psychotherapists using videoconferencing for psychotherapy.
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Becoming a Research Practitioner: A meta-synthesis
Psychotherapy plays a significant role in generating new knowledge in the field. This study offers a metasynthesis of earlier published practitioner research.
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Dissertation to published article: A journey from shame to sharing
This paper describes my experiences of re-presenting my research from a master’s degree in Integrative Psychotherapy into a paper suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
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RE-writing the Pain: A Lyric Essay
The creative, non-fiction approach of ‘lyric essay’ is used to flesh out my heuristic experience, building on earlier heuristic research about my experience of musculoskeletal pain.
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Therapists and Academic Writing: “Once upon a time psychotherapy practitioners and researchers were the same people”
The views and feelings of psychotherapists around academic writing were explored using a mixed methods approach.
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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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Emotional labour and the practicing psychologist: When the psychologist’s professional emotions go awry
The present study considers practicing psychologists’ accounts when their own emotional reactions within the therapeutic relationship are troubling and unwanted.
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Gestalt Psychotherapy, Conflict and Resolution: An Autoethnography
This article is based around my experiences as a gestalt psychotherapist who became a full-time mediator.
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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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Forming an Integrative Training Concept: A case study of the training in psychotherapy integration
The literature on the nature of integrative psychotherapy training is patchy. This study aimed to explore how integrative elements are conceptualized and taught.
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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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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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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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Action research in the light of integrative practice of marital and family therapists and some other research problems
Marital and family therapists are likely to use multiple models or treatment approaches, combine several techniques, theories, or factors in their therapy to address the complexity of the therapeutic situation.
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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.