Dr Victoria Clarke Victoria.Clarke@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Qualitative & Critical Psychology
Qualitative story completion: A creative and novel method for psychotherapy and counselling psychology research
Clarke, Victoria; Moller, Naomi
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Naomi Moller
Abstract
Story completion (SC) – where respondents are presented with the start of a story (the story ‘stem’ or ‘cue’) and asked to complete it – originally developed as a projective technique for clinical and research assessment. While SC continues to be used in this way, it has also evolved into a qualitative data generation technique, providing qualitative researchers with a creative and novel alternative to the self-report data typical of qualitative research. In this paper, we outline the growing interest in the method within psychotherapy and counselling psychology research and explain what we think the method offers to this field of research. To support psychotherapists and counselling psychologists in adding SC to their methodological toolkit, we also provide practical guidance on the design and implementation of SC, drawing on an example study exploring perceptions of ethnic/racial differences between a therapist and client.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 3, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 20, 2023 |
Publication Date | Mar 20, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Feb 3, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 21, 2023 |
Journal | Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin |
Print ISSN | 2044-0820 |
Electronic ISSN | 2396-9598 |
Publisher | The British Psychological Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | Spring 2023 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsqmip.2023.1.35.24 |
Keywords | Story completion; Psychotherapy |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10423648 |
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