Relational-Centred Research for Psychotherapists

Exploring Meanings and Experience
Herausgeber: Finlay, Linda; Evans, Ken

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Carrying out research has become increasingly important for psychotherapists in clinical practice. Relational-centred Research for Psychotherapists: Exploring Meaning and Experience addresses this clear need by providing a practical introduction to developing relational-centred qualitative research. Readers are offered many practical examples of small-scale research that is firmly grounded in clinical experience. Advocating a qualitative research approach, the examples mirror relational-centred practice by placing the emphasis on conducting research with participants, not on them. Finlay and Evans demonstrate that many of the familiar clinical skills, values, and interests of therapists - such as interviewing skills, reflexive interpretation, and inferential thinking - are, in fact, transferable to the research domain, while knowledge of research processes and findings can further enhance clinical therapy. As an accessible introduction to setting up and conducting research, this book is the long-awaited answer to increasing competencies for psychotherapists and counsellors in clinical practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9780470997765
• ISBN-10: 0470997761
• Artikelnr.: 28241851

Autorenporträt

Linda Finlay teaches 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 organisational consultancy.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Editors.

Contributing Authors.

Preface.

Part I: Engaging Qualitative Research and theRelational-centred Approach.

Introduction.

1. Qualitative Relational-centred Research: A 'Voyage ofDiscovery'.

2. Competing Qualitative Research Traditions.

3. Embodied Co-creation: Theory and Values for RelationalResearch.

4. Challenging 'Evidence-based Practice'.

5. Quality in Qualitative Relational-centred Research.

Part II: Relational-centred Research: Being andDoing.

Introduction.

6. Setting Up Research.

7. The Research Encounter: Co-creating your Data.

8. Embracing Relational Research: Learning from Therapy.

9. Engaging 'Process'.

10. Analysis of Data (Linda Finlay and Anna Madill).

11. Relational Ethics.

12. Becoming a Relational Researcher.

Part III: Relational-centred Research in Action.

Introduction.

13. 'My Heart was Killing Me': A HermeneuticPhenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of Anger (VirginiaEatough).

14. A Therapist's Portrait of a Clinical Encounter with aSomatizer (Maria Luca).

15. Relating through Difference: A Critical Narrative Analysis(Darren Langdridge).

16. A Journey into Survival and Coping by Women Survivors ofChildhood Sexual Abuse (Susan L. Morrow).

References.

Index.

Rezensionen

"This is a useful and informative introductory book. It sparked myinterest in pursuing some of the suggested methods and topics ofresearch within my own setting." (Gestalt Journal of Australiaand New Zealand, June 2010)

'This book is highly readable, and humanistic in the best anddeepest sense of the word. Finlay and Evans have done much todemonstrate what psychotherapy and qualitative research have incommon without overlooking their boundaries. They provide a visionand a map that is likely to inspire and give guidance topsychotherapists and researchers who take seriously the explorationof human experience.'--Steen Halling, Professor ofPsychology, Seattle University, USA

'This book is essential reading for seasoned and noviceresearchers alike; Finlay and Evans put relational-centred researchon the map and offer a much-needed bridge across the gulf betweenacademic theory/research and clinicalpractice.'--Professor Simon du Plock, Metanoia Instituteand Middlesex University, UK

'I believe that psychotherapists will resonate stronglywith this approach to research. It just makes so much sense. Thehuman dimensions of research are emphasised --both in its processand in its topic areas. This is a book that can awaken enthusiasmfor what is most alive in human-centredenquiry.'--Professor Les Todres, author ofEmbodied Enquiry: Phenomenological Touchstones for Research,Psychotherapy and Spirituality