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Observing a client's grieving process: bringing logical positivism into qualitative grief counselling research.
- Source :
- British Journal of Guidance & Counselling; Oct2014, Vol. 42 Issue 5, p568-583, 16p, 1 Diagram, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- This positional paper originates from our need as researcher/practitioners to establish a meaningful epistemological framework for research into bereaved people's journey through loss and grief over time. We describe how the field of grief research has a long and established biological basis, in keeping with a positivist epistemology. However, there has been a diminution of the influence of logical positivism in twenty-first-century counselling research. We argue that in grief counselling research, naturalistic observation of the grieving process within a logical positivist paradigm, remains a valid and valuable construct. We posit an observational protocol for the grief counselling process which minimises the intrusion of research method into the therapeutic process. We offer this as a means of conducting qualitative research within a bereavement counselling service. Further, we suggest that the development of an observational protocol for a client's grieving process has potential implications for developing good practice in grief work. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03069885
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 98838456
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2014.936823