Qualitative Research on ACT
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Am new to this forum. Am formulating a doctoral thesis topic using qualitative research methods to investigating both mindfulness therapist processes and client processes. ACT will play a big part. Was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of any preexisting qualitative studies on ACT. Thanks.
Qualitative stuff
Hi Stuart. Just noticed your thread (a bit late I know). I am in a similar situation to you are/ were: considering a mixed quantative/ Qual ACT evaluation study for Clinical Thesis. How are you getting on? If youre still working on this perhaps we could compare notes via email?
Jonathan
Qualitative research on ACT
I am curious about lack of response to this thread- we are a small NHS clinical health psychology dept interested in using qualitative approaches to collaborate with service users in generating better theoretical frameworks for understanding process of change in people with long term health conditions attending ACT group, and using this to refine & develop the program. Currently considering grounded theory, or more participative methods such as action research or appreciative enquiry. Would be very glad to share ideas/ resources if anyone has similar interests/ projects.
Qualitative reearch
Hi Lorraine,
Would be happy to share ideas re/ qual research on ACT.
I am currently in the middle of my DClinPsy Thesis, and I am evaluating an ACT group for family carers of individuals who have had a brain injury. The evaluation involves both standard quantitative measures, and a qualitative aspect, which involves use of IPA. I'm still in the data collection stage at the moment, but it looks like there might be some interesting themes coming out.
The ideas you have suggested sound really interesting, it would be good to see some more qualitative/ mixed methods approaches. Feel free to get in touch re. this, although I'm certainly no expert in these methods!
Regards
Jonathan
Qualitative studies on ACT
Hi All,
To continue this topic - I am currently conducting an IPA study in to therapist experience of ACT-based training as part of my DPsych Counselling Psychology training. With three month to go, I am nearing the end of it and I am also getting some interesting emerging themes from the data. I hope to publish my findings at some point but this would be a while off yet.
If anyone knows of any other qualitative studies then I would be very interested in hearing about them.
Matt
Qualitative studies: compatibility of descriptive contextualism?
Hello ACT researchers,
I too have been looking for ACT studies which include a qualitative component and have only found a few unpublished doctoral dissertations which I cannot access and an abstract of a study by Vinicius Siqueira (I have emailed him). Please post any studies you have found, including preliminary work by any of the researchers who have posted above, if possible.
I have been struggling with wanting to do a phenomenological analysis of the process of acceptance in ACT therapy while realizing that it does not fit with the functional contextual research agenda, because it would be considered descriptive contextualism. It would be very helpful to hear from others who went ahead with this research (IPA) about how they overcame what seems like a philosophical impasse, how they rationalized their choice of methodology, and how the ACT community perceives this research in respect to their goals of prediction and influence.
I would like to study mechanisms of change while not having the means to conduct mechanisms of change research using behavioral coding, as seen in Hesser et al. 2009. Given these restrictions, which methodology would be most appropriate? Would it be helpful to do mixed research with the aim of bridging the gap between the scientific community, which demands topographical descriptions, and the ACT community's functional descriptions of phenomena?
Thanks in advance for your advice and help.
Emily