Book launch: 'Qualitative Research Approaches for Psychotherapy'

The event will begin with a brief intro from the editors, Keith Tudor and Jonathan Wyatt, which will be followed by comments and/or readings from chapter authors, including Elizabeth Day, Dan Harris, Sarah Helps, Emily Le Couteur, Fiona Murray, Jane Speedy, and Kerry Thomas-Anttila. We will also have plenty of time for responses, questions, and discussion. We hope you can be with us as we celebrate this new contribution to conversations about qualitative research in counselling and psychotherapy. Routledge are offering a discount for those who attend - details on the day.

More about the book:

Qualitative Research Approaches for Psychotherapy offers the reader a range of current qualitative research approaches congruent with the values and practices of psychotherapy itself: experience-based, reflective, contextualized, and critical.

This volume contains 14 essays from authors in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, writing from a range of theoretical and cultural perspectives. The book covers both established and emerging approaches to qualitative research in this field, beginning with case study, ending with postqualitative, and with hermeneutic, reflexive, psychosocial, Talanoa, queer, feminist, critical race theory, heuristic, grounded theory, authoethnographic, poetic and collaborative writing approaches in between. These chapters introduce and explore the complexity of the specific research approach, its assumptions, challenges, ethics, and potentials, including examples from the authors’ own research, therapeutic practice, and life. The book is not a ‘how to’ guide to methods but, rather, a stimulus for counselling and psychotherapy researchers to think and feel their way differently into their research endeavours.

This book will be an invaluable resource to postgraduate students, practitioners and established researchers in psychotherapy who are undertaking (or considering) qualitative research for their projects. It will also appeal to course tutors and trainers looking for a volume around which to structure a qualitative research methods course.