F. Truijens, K. Van Nieuwenhove, M. D. De Smet, M. Desmet, R. Meganck
{"title":"How questionnaires shape experienced symptoms. A qualitative case comparison study of questionnaire administration in psychotherapy research","authors":"F. Truijens, K. Van Nieuwenhove, M. D. De Smet, M. Desmet, R. Meganck","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2021.1886383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2021.1886383","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Quantified symptom measurement by self-report questionnaires is part of the ‘gold standard’ of assessing psychotherapeutic efficacy. In this paper, we report a qualitative case comparison to explore how June and Amy, two patient-participants in a gold standard psychotherapy study, experienced the process of quantitative data collection. The study resembles cognitive interviewing studies conducted in the development of measures, yet advances them by investigating patients’ experiences of questionnaire administration in actual psychotherapy. Both cases reported known issues in interpretation of pre-structured item- and response formats, communicative administrator-respondent dynamics, and response shifts. Beyond known scoring problems, the act of questionnaire administration changed their interpretation of experienced symptoms, which facilitated clinical change beyond therapeutic effects. For Amy, this change was associated with improvement, but for June, questionnaire administration facilitated deterioration in experienced symptoms. These findings emphasize that it is both epistemically and ethically vital to consider measurement effects in clinical practice. This study demonstrates the importance of taking a qualitative stance in psychotherapy research, as qualitative research can elaborate the contextual and idiosyncratic nature of questionnaire scores, and highlights that both researchers and clinicians have to be attentive to the meaning of scores as words in participants’ clinical stories.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"19 1","pages":"806 - 830"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14780887.2021.1886383","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46855515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a formulation of the fatherhood constellation: Representing absence","authors":"S. Berman, C. Long","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2021.1873473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2021.1873473","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In contrast with Daniel Stern’s extensive work on the motherhood constellation, very little has been written about the fatherhood constellation. In an effort to explore emergent fatherhood and the idea of the fatherhood constellation, psychoanalytic research interviews were conducted with white, middle-class South African fathers of infants. The findings highlight two central themes which offer a way to begin thinking about the nature of the fatherhood constellation. Firstly, the fatherhood constellation is constituted by the father’s wish to protect and support the mother and baby. Secondly, the fatherhood constellation is characterized by what fatherhood is not, as opposed to what it is to be a father. Unlike the mother, the father does not get pregnant, he does not give birth and he cannot breastfeed, all defining features of motherhood. This paper subsequently suggests that the representation of absence may be a key step to the father’s presence in his own mind.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"19 1","pages":"784 - 805"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14780887.2021.1873473","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47035219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What does effective allyship between social work and lived experience workers look like in the Australian forensic mental health context?","authors":"Caroline Lambert, R. Egan, Stuart D M Thomas","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2020.1869357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2020.1869357","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While forensic social work has a long history, it continues to struggle with its identity within a multidisciplinary team environment. Some jurisdictions have witnessed the development of informal partnerships between social work teams and lived experience workers, but little is known about their operation. Against this background, the aim of this project was to explore the presence, nature and operation of these partnerships in forensic mental health services. Social workers and lived experience workers from Australia and New Zealand attended a two-day summit to share practice-based experiences and engage in small group discussions. The Summit identified both a range of service models across forensic mental health services, and a keen interest in amassing practice-based wisdom to enable more formalised partnerships between social work and lived experience workers. Recommendations arising can be used as a platform to shape the future development and directions of allyship in forensic mental health practice.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"18 1","pages":"459 - 472"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14780887.2020.1869357","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42225434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fusing horizons in qualitative research: Gadamer and cultural resonances","authors":"Adi Barak","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2020.1854403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2020.1854403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, I explore the intersection between Hans Georg Gadamer’s ‘fusion of horizons’ and interpreter’s ‘prejudices,’ together with the concept of cultural resonances as they pertain to qualitative research in psychology. I define cultural resonances as the researcher’s different cultural associations and/or connotations (e.g., myths, legends, popular media references), that emerge in an interpretive encounter with a text. Through a reading of Gadamer’s theory, I further explain how cultural resonances are contained within what he referred to as the interpreter’s language, prejudice, horizon, and play. Therefore, inspired by Gadamer’s assertion that understanding is always a process in which different worlds of knowledge (horizons) fuse together, and with reference to psychoanalytic reverie, Boesch’s concepts of cultural psychology, and narrative theory, I discuss cultural resonances as a horizon that inevitably unfolds in qualitative research. Finally, relying on the different topics discussed in the article, I offer a Gadamer-inspired framework for using cultural resonances in qualitative interpretation. The limitations of this framework, as well as its advantages, are discussed, with regard to reflexivity, power, rigor, and cultural sensitivity.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"19 1","pages":"768 - 783"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14780887.2020.1854403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44417706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chloé Dierckx, Lynn Hendricks, Sara Coemans, K. Hannes
{"title":"The third sphere: Reconceptualising allyship in community-based participatory research praxis","authors":"Chloé Dierckx, Lynn Hendricks, Sara Coemans, K. Hannes","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2020.1854402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2020.1854402","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A central tenet in the conduct of community-based participatory research is the establishment of an allyship between researchers and other actors, a relation that ideally should be reciprocal in nature. In theory, true allyship would stand for a mutual search for understanding and potential transformation of life circumstances through investigation and argumentation, in the absence of coercive force or preset boundaries. However, in practice, researchers often behave as privileged guests that enter a particular local reality at predefined moments in time and leave when they are satisfied with what they got. We critically reflected on the challenge of developing equitable and sustainable relationships that cut across time-space dimensions of collective engagement and action in community-based research. We offer a critique of the project-based logic of participatory research practice and how this may unwittingly affirm actions that work against the concept of true allyship. We advocate for the creation of a ‘third sphere’ that unfolds itself as an experimental laboratory for constructive and disruptive thought, wherein every stakeholder is equally subjected to the centripetal force of meeting each other in the middle. This increases the likelihood that unanticipated and new ways of thinking and acting will emerge from the collective.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"18 1","pages":"473 - 497"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14780887.2020.1854402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48524086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Seymour‐Smith, David J. Brown, A. Burton, N. Shopland, Masood Khan, Roseann Thompson, Lindsay Thompson, Lisa Jackson, Wayne Marston, Roydon Allen
{"title":"Joint allies: Benefits and tensions of co-producing a prostate cancer app for, and with, the Black British African-Caribbean community","authors":"Sarah Seymour‐Smith, David J. Brown, A. Burton, N. Shopland, Masood Khan, Roseann Thompson, Lindsay Thompson, Lisa Jackson, Wayne Marston, Roydon Allen","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2020.1861491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2020.1861491","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper we use a case study, the co-production of a prostate cancer app with, and for, Black British African-Caribbean communities, to discuss benefits and tensions of inclusive practice and allyship. We view our collaborators as joint partners, and joint allies, for the Black British African-Caribbean community. Here, we document the research process and highlight successful aspects of our collaboration such as mentoring, recruitment, ideas on the format and presentation of the app, supportive data collection practices, useful community feedback and promotion of the app. We also highlight points in the research process that in hindsight needed more discussion and careful negotiation. We end with some recommendations based on our experience.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"18 1","pages":"498 - 517"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14780887.2020.1861491","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47236184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imitation as a method of analyses: Understanding participants’ perspectives","authors":"L. H. Mjelve, R. Tangen","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2020.1840684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2020.1840684","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses how and why imitation of research participants’ verbal and non-verbal language can improve our understanding of interaction processes in counselling. Experiences from a research project are presented to illustrate challenges and advantages in the process of analysis. An analytical approach was developed during the project, in which imitation of the participants’ verbal and non-verbal language was used. Imitation as a method of analysis is discussed with ‘phenomenology of the body’ as a frame of reference. The conclusion is that imitation can add to the understanding of counselling processes by serving as a tool for understanding participants’ perspectives in a way that gives a holistic picture of the interaction between them. This is possible because imitation activates the researcher’s insight based on bodily experience and tacit knowledge. Thus, interpretation and theorizing of the research phenomenon can be strengthened.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"19 1","pages":"747 - 767"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14780887.2020.1840684","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42123871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staging Therapeutic Enactment with Veterans in Contact!Unload","authors":"Graham W. Lea, G. Belliveau, M. Westwood","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2018.1442776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2018.1442776","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article shares an excerpt from the research-based theatre production Contact!Unload. The play, developed with military veterans using community theatre approaches, explores experiences of veterans transitioning from active service and living with trauma-related stress injuries. The excerpt included in this article provides a theatricalized example of therapeutic enactment (TE), a central intervention of the Veterans’ Transition Project (VTP). After contextualizing both TE and VTP, the script provides a visceral example of one veteran’s experiences both in service and in a TE. This article provides an example of using TE with veterans living with traumatic stress injuries and, in doing so, demonstrates the potential of research-based theatre as a methodology for engaging in and sharing psychological research.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"17 1","pages":"521 - 540"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14780887.2018.1442776","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46159120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photovoice as a visual-verbal strategy for studying contents and processes of social representations: a participatory project on sustainable energy","authors":"M. Sarrica, S. Brondi","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2018.1456587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2018.1456587","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Photovoice is a participatory action-research strategy that has been mainly adopted to give voice to “unheard” groups. In this article, we adapted this strategy in a study on the social representations (SRs) of sustainable energy shared by young citizens (ages 11–12) in Narni, Italy, a small urban center with a history intertwined with sustainable energy issues. In particular, the study suggests that photovoice could be useful to jointly examine verbal and visual components of social representations and to highlight communicative formats that contribute to shape SRs. Images of sustainable energy produced by participants show technocentric and ecocentric contents, confirming previous studies conducted with adults. Anthropocentric components also emerge, potentially identifying a challenging figurative nucleus. Photo-elicitation and small-group discussions show a twofold communicative activity: reification formats and homogamic communication are used to reaffirm shared representations, and the consensualization format is used when potentially disruptive elements for the community are at stake. Overall, results show the potentialities of photovoice experience for SR research and suggest that photovoice could actually benefit from further in-depth analyses of images and of communication within groups. Implications of the results for civic engagement are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"17 1","pages":"565 - 586"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14780887.2018.1456587","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45912370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Johnson, Xander Macaulay-Rettino, Simon Banderob, Inara Lalani, Emily Carson-Apstein, Ellana Blacher
{"title":"A rose by any other name? Developing a method of collaborative poetics","authors":"H. Johnson, Xander Macaulay-Rettino, Simon Banderob, Inara Lalani, Emily Carson-Apstein, Ellana Blacher","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2018.1442762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2018.1442762","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article describes a new method of participatory arts-based research in which poets and social scientists form a collaborative research collective. This collaborative poetics method harnesses participants’ skills and knowledge to produce innovative, creative pieces, which can deepen understandings of social scientific issues and communicate this knowledge in engaging, accessible ways. The method was developed in a pilot study in which seven young spoken word poets and one poet/social scientist explored their lived experiences of discrimination. These experiences were elucidated through poetic autoethnographies, which were disseminated in a chapbook and live spoken word performance. Audience feedback indicated that the autoethnographies were powerful and thought provoking. For the co-researchers, the project was a transformative experience, facilitating changes in their focus, exploration, and communication of issues around discrimination and encouraging them to respond differently to instances of discrimination, prejudice, or abuse. The pilot study thus provides strong, preliminary support for the value of the collaborative poetics method.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"17 1","pages":"477 - 497"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14780887.2018.1442762","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47727835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}