Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-332) and index
Contents:
1. Qualitative research in counselling and psychotherapy: achievement and potential 2. The philosophical basis of qualitative research 3. Doing qualitative research 4. Phenomenological research 5. Ethnographic approaches to research in counselling and psychotherapy 6. Using grounded theory 7. Variants of grounded theory: thematic analysis, Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, Consensual Qualitative Research, and ideal type analysis 8. Analysis of conversation and discourse 9. Narrative analysis 10. Personal experience methods: heuristic research and autoethnography 11. Using participation in inquiry to enhance practical knowing: action research 12. Qualitative case studies 13. The role of qualitative methods in outcome research 14. The concept of validity in qualitative research 15. Next steps: taking the research agenda forward
