Kiyimba2016

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Kiyimba2016
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Kiyimba2016
Author(s) Nikki Kiyimba
Title Using discourse and conversation analysis to study clinical practice in adult mental health
Editor(s) Jessica Nina Lester, Michelle O'Reilly
Tag(s) EMCA, Discourse Analysis, Mental Health
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2016
Language English
City London
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Pages 45–63
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DOI 10.1057/9781137496850_3
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Howpublished
Book title The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health
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Abstract

The discipline of clinical psychology has emerged from a largely positivist approach to understanding human behaviour (Kiyimba, 2015), and applied research for clinical psychologists has, for the most part, followed the quantitative tradition. Psychology, in the wider sense, historically positioned itself within the sciences, and as such the quantitative approach to measuring phenomena has tended to predominate (Peters, 2010). Thus, the move towards using qualitative approaches within psychological research has been relatively recent, despite the rich pedigree of this paradigm (Howitt, 2010). One of the aspects of this new appreciation of qualitative research has been an acknowledgement of the important role that understanding the processes in therapeutic encounters plays. This line of enquiry has facilitated an integration of the scientific ideals of good-quality research with actual clinical practice (Rhodes, 2011).

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