
Practitioner-Based Research
Power, Discourse and Transformation
Karnac Books (Publisher)
Published on 15. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-1-85575-538-3 (ISBN)
Description
Practitioner-Based Research is concerned, in particular, with the research which is undertaken by healthcare practitioners and the evidence which they generate as a result of investigating their practice. In so doing it recognizes that, as well as working in academic life, practitioner researchers are often working as practitioners outside the Academy. It argues that the work of practitioner researchers has a significant contribution to make to healthcare research and so needs to be disseminated further in order to create balanced research communities within the healthcare professions.This book will help academic researchers to broaden the limited ontological and epistemological perspectives of their research. It will also encourage healthcare practitioners who have not been trained academically to develop their research skills and to realize that they are actually researching in their practice on a day-to-day basis. Finally, it will provide a degree of transparency about therapeutic processes to help clients and patients to see aspects of professional practice and development which are usually hidden from them. The contributors cover a wide range of themes, such as the limitations of academic life and conventional medical models; ethics; the importance of imaginative writing and the use of story; metaphor and myth; the importance of personal transformation in the professional development of healthcare workers; and the relevance of belief and spirituality to healthcare research.
Reviews / Votes
'Vital and transformative perspectives on professional life. Challenging dominant discourses and power hierarchies, this socially aware and politically engaged book heralds new developments in research and practice in professions such as counselling, psychotherapy and nursing.'- Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of EssexMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 146 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85575-538-3 (9781855755383)
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Persons
John Lees is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Leeds, counselling and psychotherapy practitioner in private practice in London and Sussex, and founder editor of a Routledge journal, Psychodynamic Counselling (now Psychodynamic Practice). He has co-edited four books and published numerous book chapters and professional articles. He designed an MSc in Therapeutic Counselling, was Programme leader of that course for twelve years and co-designed three other therapy-orientated postgraduate courses, at the University of Greenwich. He has spoken at conferences in the United States, Japan, and Australia, has been visiting scholar at colleges or universities in Japan, Australia and India and has designed a course on anthroposophic psychotherapy in Japan.
Content
Introduction , A practitioner researcher's view of academic life, emancipation, and transformation , Real bodies of knowledge , A transformational dialogue between the Fisherman and the Gentle Warrior , Refiguration in counselling and psychotherapy , And so the whirl owl flies: a Jungian 1 approach to practitioner research , Exploring the meaning of hope and despair in the therapeutic relationship , Ethics and reflexivity in practitioner enquiry: three detectives and other stories , Epiphany , Psychological distress and the emancipation of the psychologically oppressed , Searching for a voice , Multiple voices, multiple truths: creating reality through dialogue