Qualitative Research Methodologies for Occupational Science and Therapy

Shoba Nayar, Mandy Stanley (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-82867-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The push for evidence-based practice has increased the demand for high-quality occupational science and occupational therapy research from conceptualisation of the study through to publication. This invaluable collection explores how to produce rigorous qualitative research by presenting and discussing a range of methodologies and methods that can be used in the fields of occupational science and therapy.

Each chapter, written by an experienced researcher in the relevant methodology, includes examples of research, foundational knowledge and therapeutic applications. Including new and cutting-edge methodologies, the book covers:






Qualitative Descriptive
Grounded Theory
Phenomenology
Narrative
Ethnography
Action Research
Case Study
Critical Discourse Analysis
Visual Methodologies
Metasynthesis
Appreciative Inquiry
Critical Theory and Philosophy

Designed for occupational science and occupational therapy researchers, this book develops the reader’s ability to produce and critique high quality qualitative research that is epistemologically sound and rigorous.

Autor

Shoba Nayar is a Senior Lecturer in the postgraduate public health program at the School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, and Associate Director of the Centre for Migrant and Refugee Research, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Shoba is President of the Association of the Journal of Occupational Science and an associate editor for the Journal of Occupational Science. Mandy Stanley is a Senior Lecturer in the occupational therapy program at the School of Health Science and member of the International Center for Allied Health Evidence, University of South Australia, Australia. Mandy is President of the Australasian Society of Occupational Scientists and an associate editor for the Journal of Occupational Science.

Inhalt

1. Beginning Conversations 2. Deepening Understandings 3. Qualitative Descriptive: A Very Good Place to Start 4. Grounded Theory: Uncovering a World of Process 5. Doing (Interpretive) Phenomenology 6. Narrative Methodology: A Tool to Access Unfolding and Situated Meaning in Occupation 7. Ethnography: Understanding Occupation through an Examination of Culture 8. Action Research: Exploring Occupation and Transforming Occupational Therapy 9. Case Study Methodology: The Particular and the Whole 10. Critical Discourse Analysis: Opening Possibilities through Deconstruction 11. Visual Methodologies: Photovoice in Focus 12. Meta-Synthesis Demystified: Connecting Islands of Knowledge 13. Appreciative Inquiry: Enabling Occupation through the Envisioning Mind 14. Interrogating Power and Reason: Critical Theory and Philosophy 15. Closing Conversations

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.11.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 13 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 498 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Rehabilitation
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• ISBN-10: 0-415-82867-8 / 0415828678
• ISBN-13: 978-0-415-82867-3 / 9780415828673
• Zustand: Neuware