Qualitative Research: Evaluating the Process and the Product

Stiles, William B.

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“…This approach has been usefully applied to an extensive range of psychological inquiry (Reid et al, 2005). Insight into the participant's subjective lived experience is promoted, whilst recognising the potential influence of the researchers own preconceptions on the research process (Shaw, 2001;Smith, Jarman, & Osborn, 1999;Stiles, 2003).…”

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An exploratory investigation of the experiences of partners living with people who have bulimia nervosa

Huke

Slade

2006

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore partners' experiences of living as a couple with someone with bulimia nervosa.MethodTranscripts of eight exploratory interviews with partners were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.ResultsFive superordinate themes emerged: (1) Living with the secrecy and deception; (2) Struggling to understand and find reasons; (3) Discovering your powerlessness; (4) ‘It's like growing to live with it’; (5) Experiencing strengths and strains in the relationship.DiscussionLiving with someone with bulimia presents many challenges for partners. They struggle to understand what is happening, can find the secrecy difficult to live with, and are often left feeling powerless. However, partners also look to find ways of accepting and living with the bulimia. It is suggested that partners could be offered opportunities to access support, and that their perspectives could be a useful resource for therapeutic interventions. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.

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An exploratory investigation of the experiences of partners living with people who have bulimia nervosa

Huke

Slade

2006

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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“…I like to describe this process of abduction as research observations permeating the theory (Stiles, , 2003a. This invokes a diffusion metaphor: particles of observation spread through the theoretical interstices.…”

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Logical Operations in Theory-Building Case Studies

Stiles¹

2009

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The logical operations involved in theory-building case studies include deduction (logical consistency and interconnection), induction (applying observations to theory), and abduction (creating, refining, and elaborating theory). The product of theory-building research is an account of a phenomenon in the form of words and other signs. Scientific quality control on theory is accomplished by comparing theoretical statements with observations. In case studies, detailed case observations are compared to detailed clinical theories. Stable meanings of terms and logical (deductive) interconnection allow empirical (inductive) observations on one tenet of a theory to affect confidence in other tenets. Researchers creatively modify their theories by (abductively) adding to them or altering them so that they correspond to accumulating observations. In this way, observations on cases permeate the theories, so that the words of the theory convey the accumulated experience of previous researchers.

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“…In keeping with the logic of theory-building case research (Stiles, 2003(Stiles, , 2009, the intent of both phases was to make inferences-grounded in actual passages from the cases-that served to expand the model's scope and applicability. The goal was to create a coherent account of treating GAD that respected co-investigator observations as well as previous iterations of the assimilation model.…”

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Employing a Case Study in Building an Assimilation Theory Account of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Its Treatment with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

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Stiles

2011

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This theory-building case study aimed to elaborate an account of anxiety and its treatment within an assimilation model of therapeutic change (e.g., Stiles, 2002). A team consisting of the senior author and two other co-investigators independently reviewed the case of Robert, a 52 year-old man who was successfully treated for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in a clinical trial of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). The team observed the expression of Robert's major voicesthe assimilation model's name for the individual parts of a client's personality-in the audio record of the client's in-session dialogue. Prominent among these was a critic voice, described by co-investigators as harsh and derisive toward other aspects of the self. Our work led us to infer that, although the critic voice seemed closely associated with the anxiety that characterized Robert's GAD, it did not produce that anxiety directly through its attacks on his other voices. Rather, the critic voice induced vulnerability to specific, anxiety-arousing external circumstances by derogating Robert's coping skills or exaggerating the threat of specific external circumstances. Robert's anxiety then arose when he encountered those circumstances.

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Qualitative Research: Evaluating the Process and the Product

Cited by 45 publications

References 104 publications

An exploratory investigation of the experiences of partners living with people who have bulimia nervosa

An exploratory investigation of the experiences of partners living with people who have bulimia nervosa

Logical Operations in Theory-Building Case Studies

Employing a Case Study in Building an Assimilation Theory Account of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Its Treatment with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

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