Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation in Counseling Psychology: Strategies for Best Practices

Abstract

This article presents an overview of various strategies and methods of engaging in qualitative data interpretations and analyses in counseling psychology. The authors explore the themes of self, culture, collaboration, circularity, trustworthiness, and evidence deconstruction from multiple qualitative methodologies. Commonalities and differences that span across approaches are explored. Implications for how researchers address qualitative data analysis and interpretation in counseling psychology training and research are discussed.

Relational Social Justice Identity Development among Chinese International High School Students

“…During the meetings, they shared and explored research plans, theoretical notes, and ideas for themes for critical feedback. In order to confirm the relevance, credibility, and validity of the data, we used member checking, which is the process of sharing and reviewing the findings, interpretations, and conclusions with at least one of the participants of the study (Yeh & Inman, 2007). The data was shared with one of the participants in order to check and ensure that our analyses and interpretations were meaningful and jedp.ccsenet.org Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology Vol.…”

“…Researchers are integrally bound to the research process as they shape and construct data, interpretations, analysis, and representations of meaning (Yeh & Inman, 2007). In the present study, two of the authors served on the primary research team.…”

Science Needs for Sea-Level Adaptation Planning: Comparisons among Three U.S. Atlantic Coastal Regions

“…We computed the frequencies of kwps, priority topics, and themes according to the three geographic regions. Several kwps, such as "temporal scale" and "spatial scale," occurred in more than one priority topic, or as priority topics within several different themes, an outcome seen in text analysis procedures illustrating the cross-thematic importance and complexity of some words within specific context areas (Bradley, Curry, and Devers 2007;Yeh and Iman 2007).…”

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“…Specific ethics evaluation criteria developed from research in conflict settings include non-discrimination and representativeness, empowerment and agency, age-and cultural appropriateness of tools, intra-group dynamics and gender dimensions, researcher-participant power relations, the cultural competence of the research team, confidentiality and anonymity, and informed consent (Hart & Tyrer, 2006). Those will be supplemented by the critiques of Fassinger and Morrow (2013) and of Yeh and Inman (2007), which provide frameworks for qualitative data analysis and for the conduct of research from a social justice perspective.…”