ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|7 pages

Beginning conversations

chapter 2|13 pages

Deepening understandings

chapter 3|16 pages

Qualitative descriptive

A very good place to start

chapter 4|16 pages

Grounded theory

Uncovering a world of process

chapter 6|14 pages

Narrative methodology

A tool to access unfolding and situated meaning in occupation

chapter 7|17 pages

Ethnography

Understanding occupation through an examination of culture

chapter 8|17 pages

Action research

Exploring occupation and transforming occupational therapy

chapter 9|19 pages

Case study methodology

The particular and the whole

chapter 10|18 pages

Critical discourse analysis

Opening possibilities through deconstruction

chapter 11|19 pages

Visual methodologies

Photovoice in focus

chapter 12|16 pages

Meta-synthesis demystified

Connecting islands of knowledge

chapter 13|18 pages

Appreciative inquiry

Enabling occupation through the envisioning mind

chapter 14|17 pages

Interrogating power and reason

Critical theory and philosophy