SUBJECT

Title

Research Methods in Clinical Psychology: Qualitative Psychology Research Design and the Publication of Results

Code

DPSY16-CLI-102:2

Type of instruction

practice

Level

Doctoral

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Psychology

Part of degree program

Doctoral School of Psychology

Credits

Recommended in

Semester 1-4

Typically offered in

Autumn/Spring semester

Course description

Definition of the research design: the research question, definition of the field or the sample, selecting the proper method/method combination or sample, theory of circulation in the process of data gathering; b.fieldwork (observation, participant observation, interview), other methods: interview (narrative and semi-structured), focal group, clinical studies; c. roles and identities in the fieldwork; d. qualitative study of multimodal texts (online and offline possibilities); e. qualitative studies based on special sampling techniques: snowball, privilegized access, targeted sampling and sample based on quotas.
Student should have their own experiences and they should have them in a written form. This is the basis of the next chapter: analysis of qualitative data.
Analysis of qualitative psychological data

a. from field texts to study texts: memos and coding
b. basic corpus language concepts
c.cGrounded Theory; d. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis; e. heuristic data gathering and analysis
f. narrative analysis
g. CAQDAS: computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software: an introduction. Pilot studies based on different methods and theoretical approaches

Qualitative psychological paper

a. question of authorship, relationship between author and reader
b. presentation of qualitative data
c. publication: expectations of journals publishing qualitative psychological studies, especially the problems of citations and coding

Readings

Charmac KC (2006): Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide through Qualitative Analysis. Sage, London.
Denzin N K and Lincoln Y S (eds.)(2013): Handbook of qualitative research. Sage, Thousan Oak.
Geertz C (1990): Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto.
Smith J A (Ed.) (2008): Qualitative Psychology. A Practical Guide to Research Methods. Second Edition. SAGE, Los Angeles.
Willig C and Stainton-Rogers W (Eds.) (2008): The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. Sage, Los Angeles.