Research

Researching Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence: Critical Perspectives for Student-Practitioner Researchers
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This is essential reading for students either currently engaged in or with aspirations to work in professional practice in the DA and SV sectors. It is also useful for students on related graduate MA professional courses, practitioners in social work, health care, criminal justice, counselling, and particularly in the multi-faceted ‘women’s sector’. It will also appeal to final-year students undertaking primary research in social work, health care, women’s studies, and criminology.

The Researcher’s Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Practitioner Research (2nd Edition)
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Designed for those undertaking research for the first time, this fully updated edition of The Researcher’s Toolkitis a practical and accessible guide for all those partaking in small-scale research. Jargon-free and assuming no prior knowledge, it covers the entire research process, from defining a research topic or question through to its completion.

Narrative Portraits in Qualitative Research
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Narrative Portraits in Qualitative Research offers an analytical approach to qualitative data. Through narrative portraiture, research findings can be contextualised in broader social narratives without losing sight of the unique personal qualities of the research encounter.
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Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis: Theoretical Basis and Experiences through Working Parties
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This book offers different theoretical approaches about what clinical research is.

Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health: Innovative and Collaborative Approaches
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This book examines innovative approaches to the use of qualitative methods in mental health research.

Integrating Postmodern Therapy and Qualitative Research: Guiding Theory and Practice
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This book integrates postmodern theories of therapeutic research and practice to demonstrate how these approaches can be effectively integrated into methods of data collection and analysis.

Developments in Qualitative Psychotherapy Research
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This book examines developments in qualitative psychotherapeutic research. It focuses on different methods and aspects of clinical practice. These range from the experiences of service users and clinicians, examining in detail different aspects of how therapy gets done in practice, to critiquing the politics and ideologies of psychotherapy practice.

Clinician-Researchers in Psychotherapy: Careers Engaged in both Practice and Research
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This book combines original empirical work, theory, and first-person scholarly narratives authored by clinical mental health professionals in the early, middle, and later stages of their careers as they highlight the rewards, challenges, and potent areas of synergy they experience as clinician-researchers.

Intuition in Psychotherapy: From Research to Practice
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Intuition in Psychotherapy provides an unprecedented look at the phenomenon of clinical intuition, outlining its role in psychotherapy and providing a framework to develop intuitive skills that will positively impact practice.

Experience Sampling in Mental Health Research
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Experience Sampling in Mental Health Research provides comprehensive and user-friendly guidance on when and how to apply this methodology in the assessment of clinical populations.

Developments in Qualitative Psychotherapy Research
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This book examines developments in qualitative psychotherapeutic research. It focuses on different methods and aspects of clinical practice. These range from the experiences of service users and clinicians, examining in detail different aspects of how therapy gets done in practice, to critiquing the politics and ideologies of psychotherapy practice.

An Introduction to Art Therapy Research
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This revised and expanded edition pays particular attention to the field’s unique and compelling questions, most current literature, and emerging trends in research, while guiding readers through the basics of qualitative, quantitative, and art-based research design.

Internet Research Methods (2nd edition)
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Key theoretical debates and issues are explored, and practical advice and guidance on the tools, methods and techniques available offered, using illustrative examples and case studies throughout.

Doing Qualitative Research Online
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Doing Qualitative Research Online gives students and researchers the practical and scholarly foundations needed to gain digital research literacies essential for designing and conducting studies based on qualitative data collected online.

Making Research Matter: Researching for Change in the Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy
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Making Research Matter is an original contribution to the growing field of work-based learning with a focus on research aimed at developing the practice of counselling and psychotherapy addressing the practice-research gap.

Doing Counselling Research (3rd Edition)
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From leading researcher and bestselling author, John McLeod, this substantially rewritten and restructured third edition is the most accessible and comprehensive ‘how to’ guide on conducting a successful research project in counselling and psychotherapy

Systemic Inquiry Innovations in Reflexive Practice Research
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This collection has been written by eminent members of the systemic communities to inspire reflexive practitioners and offer leading edge systemic research methodology with innovative approaches to systemic practice research. These practices of inquiry arise out of a comfortable systemic weaving of social constructionist, collaborative dialogical and narrative practices in the fields of therapy, consultation, teaching, supervision, leadership, organisational development, community work and activism.

Doing Practice-based Research in Therapy: A Reflexive Approach
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Drawings in Assessment and Psychotherapy: Research and Application
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Understanding Research with Children and Young People
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An Introduction to Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy – Practical Skills for Counselors Series
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Written in a language familiar to first-year trainees and using a range of features to enhance learning, this accessible introduction will equip both trainees and qualified therapists with the essential nuts and bolts to understand research.

Qualitative Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
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Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
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First Steps in Practitioner Research: A Guide to Understanding and Doing Research in Counselling and Health and Social Care
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With its emphasis on practice-based evidence, this book provides a much-needed, reliable and accessible introduction by two trusted and well-known authors. It builds confidence by not only outlining contemporary methodologies in everyday language, but also by explaining how to approach, understand and evaluate a range of published research.