Theory‐building case studies of counselling and psychotherapy |
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Authors: | William B Stiles |
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Institution: | Miami University, Ohio, USACorrespondence: Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA. E‐mail: |
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Abstract: | In addition to their potential for healing, psychotherapy and counselling offer extraordinary opportunities to observe human experience and behaviour. I suggest practitioners have expertise in and daily access to the phenomena that theories of counselling and psychotherapy seek to explain. Practitioners’ clinical experience can be accumulated and shared through theory-building case study research. This article summarizes the logic of theory‐building case studies and offers practical suggestions for conducting case study research. |
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Keywords: | Case studies theory-building research methods |
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