In Pursuit of Quality

Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Students and Practitioners

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 225-242

  Spencer, Liz ^a   Ritchie, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b National Centre fOr Social Research   (United States)

Author keywords

'Quality' debate judging quality of qualitative research, contested in literature; Closed, yes no questions, quality frameworks adopting an open ended format; Debates, and issues qualitative research, relevance beyond participants, or context of study itself; Defensibility of approach and design part of well constructed research; Establishing good quality qualitative research in mental health, in pursuit of quality; Key concerns, whether quality involves same constructs, in qualitative and quantitative research; Methodological validity transposed to concerns about rigour; Qualitative research, identifying widely held quality principles; Reliability, viewed in terms of auditability, dependability or reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886030285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119973249.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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