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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459329603321

Titolo

Practitioner based-research [[electronic resource] ] : power, discourse and transformation / / edited by John Lees and Dawn Freshwater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac Books, 2008

ISBN

0-429-47847-X

1-282-90073-0

9786612900730

1-84940-643-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LeesJohn <1951->

FreshwaterDawn

Disciplina

362.1072

Soggetti

Medical care - Research

Action research in public health

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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