Why are qualitative methods so important to clinical and health psychology research? How do you decide which methods to use? Can you successfully combine qualitative and quantitative methods?
Qualitative Research in Clinical and Health Psychology:
- Features contributions from world-leading experts in the field;
- Includes chapters on issues, methodologies and methods often overlooked in qualitative research books, including psychoanalytic methods and discussions of culture and language;
- Uses a wealth of examples from research projects to show you how to apply the theory to real research.

This comprehensive textbook is the ideal guide for anybody who wishes to develop their understanding of qualitative methods and to learn how to apply them in clinical and health psychology.

The only qualitative research methods textbook devoted to health and clinical psychology, with examples of international research from world-leading contributors

1. Introduction: Qualitative Research in Clinical and Health Psychology; Poul Rohleder and Antonia C. Lyons.- PART I: ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH.- 2. Epistemology and Qualitative Research; Kerry Chamberlain.- 3. Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research; Poul Rohleder and Charlotte Smith.- 4. Thinking about Culture and Language in Psychological Research and Practice; Leslie Swartz.- 5. Ensuring Quality in Qualitative Research; Gareth Treharne and Damien Riggs.- 6. Approaches to Collecting Data; Antonia C. Lyons.- PART II: QUALITATIVE METHODS: EXPLORING INDIVIDUAL WORLDS.- 7. Thematic Analysis; Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke and Gareth Terry.- 8. Grounded Theory; Alison Tweed and Helena Priest.- 9. Narrative Research; Michael Murray and Anneke Sools.- 10. Phenomenological Psychology; Michael Larkin.- 11. Psychoanalytically Informed Research; Kerry Gibson.- PART III: QUALITATIVE METHODS: EXPLORING SOCIAL WORLDS.- 12. Conversation Analysis; Chris Walton and Mick Finlay.- 13. Discourse Analysis; Jane Ussher and Janette Perz.- 14. Ethnography; Juliet Foster.- 15. Participatory Research; Cathy Vaughan.- PART IV: COMBINING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA.- 16. Q Methodological Research; Wendy Stainton-Rogers.- 17. Mixed Methods Research and Personal Projects Analysis; Kerryellen Vroman.