Aesthetic Forms of Data Representation in Qualitative Family Therapy Research

Piercy, Fred P.; Benson, Kristen

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2005.tb01547.x

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“…Such imagery can be useful in understanding participants’ underlying thoughts, feelings, and experiences, some of which would not be readily accessible otherwise (Zaltman, 1996, 1997, 2003). In addition, we hoped that such metaphors might bring our findings to life and help our readers connect with the findings on both an affective and intellectual level (Piercy & Benson, 2005).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 95%

A Careful Balance: Multinational Perspectives on Culture, Gender, and Power in Marriage and Family Therapy Practice

Keeling

Piercy

2007

J Marital Family Therapy

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In this study, we examined how marriage and family therapists from various countries and diverse cultural backgrounds address the intersection of gender, power, and culture in therapy. Twenty participants from 15 countries responded to an Internet survey that included several hypothetical, clinical vignettes not associated with any one particular culture or nationality. Participants selected a vignette based on its similarity to clinical situations they face in practice within their cultural contexts, and provided information about their conceptualizations of gender, culture, and power, along with treatment recommendations. We analyzed data using analytic induction and constant comparison methods. Results indicate the careful balance with which the participants work to engage clients in therapy, respect cultural values and practices, and promote equitable gender relationships.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 95%

A Careful Balance: Multinational Perspectives on Culture, Gender, and Power in Marriage and Family Therapy Practice

Keeling

Piercy

2007

J Marital Family Therapy

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“…Over recent years however, more creative and innovative ways of illustrating the findings from qualitative research have emerged, including creative writing, artwork, music, and dramatic performance (Boucher & Holian, 2001;Piercy & Benson, 2005), photography (Viegas & Wattenberg, 2008), graphical displays (Onwuegbuzie & Dickson, 2008), and poetry, songs, mandalas and multimedia tracks (Boucher & Holian, 2001;Brearley, 2004). With the advent of computer-assisted analysis technologies for qualitative research, other methods for displaying qualitative data that have emerged include network diagrams and mental maps (Viegas & Wattenberg, 2008), archival maps (Onwuegbuzie & Dickson, 2008), and in more recent years, tag clouds (Rivadeneira, Gruen, Muller, & Millen, 2007;Viegas & Wattenberg, 2008;Wendling, Johnson, & Kaske, 2008).…”

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Tag Clouds: Visual Representations of the Experiences and Needs of Children and Young People in Care

Redshaw

2012

Children Australia

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A decade of inquiries into the child protection and out-of-home care sectors across Australia has revealed a legacy of systemic abuse and individual neglect. The findings presented in this article form part of a larger research project that examined the experiences and needs of children and young people in out-of-home care within this broader context. Using document analysis, the larger study involved developing an in-depth understanding of their experiences and needs, and specifically, constructing a taxonomy of needs. The study also explored a series of salient findings about children and young people's experiences and needs in care and a number of these were explained using an innovative visual display method known as tag clouds. The aim of this article is twofold. First, to discuss the salient findings around the experiences and needs of children and young people in care in Australia using the tag clouds to illustrate the study's findings, and second, to discuss the potential use of tag clouds as an effective tool for providing visual representations of qualitative data.

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“…The pragmatic approach may be especially appealing to MFT researchers because of the desire to conduct research with clinical and real‐world applicability (Tashakkori & Teddle, 2003). Also, family therapists are becoming increasingly accepting of diverse research methodologies (Piercy & Benson, 2005; Sprenkle & Piercy, 2005); hence, MFT may have less resistance to mixed methods than other fields.…”

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Mixed Methods Research in Marriage and Family Therapy: A Content Analysis

Gambrel

Butler

2011

J Marital Family Therapy

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Considering mixed methods research is gaining reputability in the marriage and family therapy field (Research methods in family therapy, Guilford, 2005), we conducted a mixed methods content analysis to examine the prevalence and quality of published mixed and multimethod research during the past 10 years in eight prominent MFT journals (N = 32). Our purpose was to determine the characteristics of studies that utilized both qualitative and quantitative methods, the themes of the rationales for combining methods, and their respective topics of study. We found 16 mixed methods articles, many of which used surveys and interviews, focused on the process of therapy, and did not discuss their methodology as mixed. We encourage authors of mixed methods studies to explicitly define design types, to establish a clear rationale for the combination of methods, to state how qualitative and quantitative methods and data were mixed, and to use theory effectively.

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Aesthetic Forms of Data Representation in Qualitative Family Therapy Research

Cited by 25 publications

References 27 publications

A Careful Balance: Multinational Perspectives on Culture, Gender, and Power in Marriage and Family Therapy Practice

A Careful Balance: Multinational Perspectives on Culture, Gender, and Power in Marriage and Family Therapy Practice

Tag Clouds: Visual Representations of the Experiences and Needs of Children and Young People in Care

Mixed Methods Research in Marriage and Family Therapy: A Content Analysis

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