This course provides an overview of the qualitative research traditions and methods, with a focus on their application to clinical transpersonal psychology. Among the methods that may be covered are interview, case study, integral inquiry, intuitive inquiry, heuristic inquiry, phenomenology, biography, grounded theory, ethnography, hermeneutics, narrative analysis, systems theory, and complexity/chaos theory. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of these methods with quantitative methods to provide converging evidence for particular hypotheses.
PSY60360: Qualitative Research Methods
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