Qualitative Health Psychology (eBook, PDF)

Theories and Methods
Redaktion: Murray, Michael; Chamberlain, Kerry

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

`This book constitutes a valuable resource for postgraduate students and researchers. Most.... of the chapters succeed in providing a clear and comprehensive introduction to the various approaches and/or methods, thus enabling the reader to make an informed decision about whether or not they wish to pursue the topic further. The book as a whole is also very well referenced and this makes it a source of essential information for students and researchers with an interest in qualitative health psychology' - Health Psychology Update



This book explains the role of qualitative research within health psychology. Theories and methods from a qualitative perspective are highly varied but, in general, differ from the positivist approach which is concerned with quantifying the individual risk factors presumed to cause health and illness behaviour. This book shows clearly how a qualitative approach offers a better understanding of the experience of illness while locating it in its broader social context.

Providing a detailed examination of these issues, the book is organized into three sections - the first considers some of the main theoretical perspectives underlying qualitative research in health psychology including discourse analysis and narrative as well as the social context and embodiment of health and illness; the second examines some of the practical issues involved in conducting qualitative research with different populations, such as children and the terminally ill; and the final section considers a range of analytic issues and specific analytic approaches such as grounded theory and action research, and the evaluation of qualitative methods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857022028
• Artikelnr.: 38398199

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: CONSTRUCTING HEALTH AND ILLNESS THROUGH LANGUAGE
Health Psychology and Qualitative Research - Michael Murray and Kerry
Chamberlain
Social Realms and the Qualities of Illness Experience - Alan Radley
Understanding Embodied Experience - Lucy Yardley
The Storied Nature of Health and Illness - Michael Murray
Discourse, Health and Illness - Mandy Morgan
Making Sense of Illness Experiences - Mary-Jane Paris Spink
Feminist Approaches to Qualitative Health Research - Jane M Ussher
PART TWO: CONVERSING ABOUT HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Interviewing the Ill and the Healthy - Cynthia M Mathieson
Talking to Children about Health and Illness - Christine Eiser and Sarah
Twamley
Qualitative Research in the Field of Death and Dying - R Glynn Owens and
Sheila Payne
Cross-Cultural Research in Health Psychology - Jane Selby
PART THREE: TRANSFORMING TALK INTO TEXT
Using Grounded Theory in Health Psychology - Kerry Chamberlain
Action Research - Sue Curtis, Helen Bryce and Carla Treloar
Doing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Jonathan A Smith, Maria
Jarman and Mike Osborn
Shaping Health Psychology - Antonia Lyons
Qualitative Research, Evaluation and Representation

Rezensionen

`This book constitutes a valuable resource for postgraduate students and researchers. Mos t.... of the chapters succeed in providing a clear and comprehensive introduction to the various approaches and/or methods, thus enabling the reader to make an informed decision about whether or not they wish to pursue the topic further. The book as a whole is also very well referenced and this makes it a source of essential information for students and researchers with an interest in qualitative health psychology' - Health Psychology Update `The book as a whole provides a useful introduction to large-q Qualitative research in health psychology, and makes a convincing argument that qualitative research is far more than just a polite excuse for people who can't handle structural equation modelling. Like the field it describes, the book is discursive, at times personal, and intentionally partial in its perspective. Researchers, both novice and experienced, postgraduate students, and health psychology practitioners will find this a fascinating, and at times, challenging volume' - British Journal of Health Psychology