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Practitioner based-research : power, discourse and transformation / edited by John Lees and Dawn Freshwater.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Research.
- Medical care.
- Action research in public health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Karnac Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. The contributors cover a wide range of themes, such as the lim
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; A practitioner researcher's view of academic life, emancipation, and transformation; Real bodies of knowledge; A transformational dialogue between the Fisherman and the gentle warrior; Refiguration in counselling and psychotherapy; And so the whirl owl flies: a Jungian approach to practitioner research; Exploring the meaning of hope and despair in the therapeutic relationship; Ethics and reflexivity in practitioner enquiry: three detectives and other stories; Epiphany
- Psychological distress and the emancipation of the psychologically oppressedSearching for a voice; Multiple voices, multiple truths: creating reality through dialogue
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-91747-3
- 0-429-47847-X
- 1-282-90073-0
- 9786612900730
- 1-84940-643-X
- 9780429478475
- OCLC:
- 727944771
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