Dr Victoria Clarke's Outputs (13)

Qualitative story completion for counseling psychology research: A creative method to interrogate dominant discourses (2021)
Journal Article

Qualitative story completion (SC) research involves the novel qualitative application of a technique previously used in quantitative research and clinical assessment, in which participants write stories in response to a story “stem” designed by the r... Read More about Qualitative story completion for counseling psychology research: A creative method to interrogate dominant discourses.

Conceptual and design thinking for thematic analysis (2021)
Journal Article

Thematic analysis (TA) is widely used in qualitative psychology. In using TA, researchers must choose between a diverse range of approaches that can differ considerably in their underlying (but often implicit) conceptualizations of qualitative resear... Read More about Conceptual and design thinking for thematic analysis.

‘Thematic analysis has travelled to places that we’ve never heard of’: Astrid Coxon meets Victoria Clarke and Virginia Braun, to hear about using thematic analysis (2021)
Journal Article

Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke first wrote about thematic analysis – a technique for analysing qualitative data – in 2006, in a paper entitled Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology. Thematic analysis focuses on exploring patterning and meaning in... Read More about ‘Thematic analysis has travelled to places that we’ve never heard of’: Astrid Coxon meets Victoria Clarke and Virginia Braun, to hear about using thematic analysis.

Navigating the messy swamp of qualitative research: Are generic reporting standards the answer? (2021)
Journal Article

I remember feeling both surprised and excited when I heard that US qualitative psychologists were forming a grouping within the American Psychological Association (APA) – surprised, because at the time, from the outside, US psychology seemed irretrie... Read More about Navigating the messy swamp of qualitative research: Are generic reporting standards the answer?.

Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide (2021)
Book

Developed and adapted by the authors of this book, thematic analysis (TA) is one of the most popular qualitative data analytic techniques in psychology and the social and health sciences. Building on the success of Braun & Clarke's 2006 paper first o... Read More about Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide.

"Surprisingly helpful": An exploration of trainee and registered music therapists' perspectives on the current role of personal therapy in music therapy training in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article

Music therapy training programmes in the United Kingdom are accredited by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). The HCPC requires registered music therapists to have experience and understanding of the value of therapy for developing insigh... Read More about "Surprisingly helpful": An exploration of trainee and registered music therapists' perspectives on the current role of personal therapy in music therapy training in the United Kingdom.

Tips on writing a qualitative dissertation or thesis, from Braun & Clarke – Part 1 (2021)
Digital Artefact

Our advice here relates to many forms of qualitative research, and particularly to research involving the use of thematic analysis (TA).

Based on our experience of supervising students over two decades, as well as our writing on qualitative metho... Read More about Tips on writing a qualitative dissertation or thesis, from Braun & Clarke – Part 1.

Men’s experiences of help-seeking for female-perpetrated intimate partner violence: A qualitative exploration (2021)
Journal Article

The subject of female-perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV) against men has been one of controversy, with well-rehearsed arguments surrounding both the nature and existence of female-perpetrated abuse against men. The aims of this study were to... Read More about Men’s experiences of help-seeking for female-perpetrated intimate partner violence: A qualitative exploration.

“I was just fed up of not being myself”: Coming out experiences of white British divorced and separated gay fathers (2021)
Journal Article

Before the so-called “gayby boom” in the 1990s the most common pathway to parenthood for gay men was heterosexual marriage. Since the 1990s most research on gay parenting has focused on intentional gay fathers–those parenting after coming out as gay–... Read More about “I was just fed up of not being myself”: Coming out experiences of white British divorced and separated gay fathers.

A critical review of the interdisciplinary literature on voluntary childlessness (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides a critical review of the inter-disciplinary research on voluntary childlessness, examining some of the problematic assumptions that underpin the literature and the image of the childfree woman that emerges as a result. It is not... Read More about A critical review of the interdisciplinary literature on voluntary childlessness.

Exploring therapists' and psychology students' constructions of sexual refusal in heterosexual relationships: A qualitative story completion study (2021)
Journal Article

Anxieties about sex and sexual problems are widespread and are often brought to counselling and psychotherapy. Research has found that even practitioners without specialist training often work with sexual difficulties because of the prevalence of suc... Read More about Exploring therapists' and psychology students' constructions of sexual refusal in heterosexual relationships: A qualitative story completion study.

Staying strong: Exploring experiences of managing emotional distress for African Caribbean women living in the UK (2021)
Journal Article

The ‘strong Black woman’ (SBW) is a Western cultural stereotype that depicts African heritage women as strong, self-reliant, independent, yet nurturing and self-sacrificing. US research indicates that this stereotype negatively impacts the emotional... Read More about Staying strong: Exploring experiences of managing emotional distress for African Caribbean women living in the UK.

‘Rarely discussed but always present’: Exploring therapists’ accounts of the relationship between social class, mental health and therapy (2021)
Journal Article

With a few exceptions, the subject of social class has rarely been addressed in counselling and psychotherapy research. This study seeks to contribute to redressing this omission by exploring therapists’ accounts of how social class operates within t... Read More about ‘Rarely discussed but always present’: Exploring therapists’ accounts of the relationship between social class, mental health and therapy.