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It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times: Doctoral Students' Experiences of Family Therapy Research Training Through Alternative Forms of Data Representation
Author(s) -
Piercy Fred P.,
McWey Lenore M.,
Tice Susan,
James Ebony Joy,
Morris Matt,
Arthur Kristin
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00065.x
Subject(s) - representation (politics) , training (meteorology) , psychology , family therapy , research data , computer science , psychotherapist , data science , geography , politics , meteorology , political science , law , data curation
In this study, we interviewed 14 doctoral students from 10 COAMFTE‐accredited doctoral programs to learn more about how they experienced their research training and what they might suggest to strengthen the research culture in their training programs. We solicited somewhat unconventional data—metaphors, poetry, free associations, critical experiences—to (a) tap into our participants' underlying thought processes, (b) capture the multifaceted nature of their doctoral research training, and (c) represent the richness of our participants' subjective experiences. The themes we identified reflect both positive and negative research training experiences and suggest several ways that family therapy program faculty might improve their programs' research training and culture.