A Call for Radical Reflexivity in Counseling Qualitative Research

Smith, Ella Thea; Luke, Melissa

doi:10.1002/ceas.12201

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“…Uniquely, across computational suicidology, broadly, and work tapping r/SuicideWatch, specifically, we embrace the intersubjective tensions and incisive potentials inherent to a radically reflexive AI-enabled methodology, in which investigators recognize their situatedness in relation to the unfolding research process. As such, the lead author (SJS) addressed RQ4 by continually reflecting upon and deconstructing their role in shaping the knowledge-creation cycle [58,61].…”

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confidence: 99%

‘What Destroys a Person When that Person Appears to Be Destroying Himself?’ Intrapoliticizing Discourses on r/SuicideWatch

Skeen,

Contreras,

Culotta

2024

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Passive suicidality is endured by 1 in 10 adults, yet remains understudied. Ideation-to-action theories in suicidology offer explanatory reach: a capacity to understand phenomenologies of suicidal ideation, and to examine questions of why certain individuals are afflicted with a desire for death. Critical suicidology implicates oppressive societal hierarchies and cultural scripts in undermining human worth intra-psychically. The internalization of these systemic, “intrapolitical,” drivers of hopelessness may represent a key pathway to suicidal ideation. We fine-tuned theoretically grounded pretrained BERT models to detect expressions of perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, self-hatred, and loneliness among 988 r/SuicideWatch posts. Embracing a radically reflexive methodology, which highlights and interrogates investigator subjectivity amid the act of knowledge creation, thematic analysis isolated potential psychopolitical determinants of suicidality: impossible expectations of accomplishment, physical beauty, and self-mastery; self-convictions of undeservingness of life, futurity, and emotional support; and the negligence and collapse of traditional caregiving institutions. Modeling post authors’ own comments as textual confounders, these posts were shown to elicit greater aggregate positivity across their 15,616 direct-response comments. These dialogues demonstrate implicit anti-suicidist practice, rejecting pathologizing lenses and acts of silencing, as an r/SuicideWatch-specific injunctive norm. We discuss the implications of over-specified theoretical subconstructs challenging the distributional hypothesis, and share insights and tensions surfaced during reflexive interrogation.

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confidence: 99%

‘What Destroys a Person When that Person Appears to Be Destroying Himself?’ Intrapoliticizing Discourses on r/SuicideWatch

Skeen,

Contreras,

Culotta

2024

Preprint

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“…To claim and address my positionality and potential biases (Hays & Singh, 2023;Shaw et al, 2020), I used a journal and peer debriefer to provide an audit trail for my influence on my data (Hays & Singh, 2023). To accomplish this, I practiced radical reflexivity, which is an inductive, creative, and dynamic process that requires critically deconstructing the cyclical process of reflection into action (see Smith & Luke, 2021, 2023.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This process provided me with additional insights, which were of importance to me, as I was the sole researcher on the project. It was also essential as I navigated my evolving understanding of saturation based on the data and existing literature, given my commitment to radical reflexivity (Smith & Luke, 2021). Thus, saturation was achieved over a period of at least two iterations of interviews and member checks.…”

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confidence: 99%

A-Methodological Saturation: A Grounded Theory Analysis

Peters

2023

The Counseling Psychologist

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to develop an abstracted theoretical model concerning how counseling and counselor education researchers utilize saturation in their qualitative research. Given the importance of rigor and trustworthiness in qualitative research, this study addresses saturation, a method for ensuring methodological rigor and trustworthiness. The qualitative study included 23 participants from a range of social locations, methodological expertise, and research agendas. The findings from this qualitative study were analyzed and presented using Straussian grounded theory and resulted in the development of an abstracted theoretical model, which included the following: causal conditions, contextual factors, intervening conditions, actions, consequences, and a core category. The abstracted theoretical model can aid researchers in the process and practice of saturation. Advances in saturation can support the development of rigorous qualitative research design and methodological integrity. Discussion and implications are discussed across the areas of practice, education, advocacy, and research.

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“…To honor this commitment, we also reviewed, discussed, and analyzed the differing perspectives, arguments, and actions identified in the scholarship, as well as by our external panel of experts in an effort to capture the complexity of the topic. Next, in an effort to embrace radical reflexivity, we engaged in the inductive and creative process outlined by Smith and Luke (2021), which allowed us to concretize and develop a CAS process that was transparent, collaborative, critical, and reflective of anti‐oppression. In doing so, we relied on our professional relationships and rapport with colleagues to have critical discussions regarding our social locations, values, worldviews, training, socialization, and biases, encouraging each other to center on an anti‐oppressive focus, minoritized perspectives, and the desire to disrupt oppressive forces, structures, and systems of power.…”

Section: Trustworthinessmentioning

confidence: 99%