Practitioner-Based Research

Power, Discourse and Transformation

Dawn Freshwater, John Lees, Dawn Freshwater, John Lees

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780429917479
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Practitioner-Based Research is concerned, in particular, with the research which is undertaken by healthcare practitioners and the evidence which they generate as a result of investigating their practice. In so doing it recognizes that, as well as working in academic life, practitioner researchers are often working as practitioners outside the Academy. It argues that the work of practitioner researchers has a significant contribution to make to healthcare research and so needs to be disseminated further in order to create balanced research communities within the healthcare professions. This book will help academic researchers to broaden the limited ontological and epistemological perspectives of their research. It will also encourage healthcare practitioners who have not been trained academically to develop their research skills and to realize that they are actually researching in their practice on a day-to-day basis. Finally, it will provide a degree of transparency about therapeutic processes to help clients and patients to see aspects of professional practice and development which are usually hidden from them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER ONE A practitioner researcher's view of academic life, emancipation, and transformation
• CHAPTER TWO Real bodies of knowledge
• CHAPTER THREE A transformational dialogue between the Fisherman and the Gentle Warrior
• CHAPTER FOUR Refiguration in counselling and psychotherapy
• CHAPTER FIVE And so the whirl owl flies: a Jungian approach to practitioner research
• CHAPTER SIX Exploring the meaning of hope and despair in the therapeutic relationship
• CHAPTER SEVEN Ethics and reflexivity in practitioner enquiry: three detectives and other stories
• CHAPTER EIGHT Epiphany
• CHAPTER NINE Psychological distress and the emancipation of the psychologically oppressed
• CHAPTER TEN Searching for a voice
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Multiple voices, multiple truths: creating reality through dialogue
• INDEX