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Theory‐building case studies of counselling and psychotherapy
Author(s) -
Stiles William B.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
counselling and psychotherapy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1746-1405
pISSN - 1473-3145
DOI - 10.1080/14733140701356742
Subject(s) - psychotherapist , psychology , engineering ethics , engineering
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.