Ethnography in counseling psychology research: Possibilities for application.

Abstract

The emphasis placed on prolonged engagement, fieldwork, and participant observation has prevented wide-scale use of ethnography in counseling psychology. This article provides a discussion of ethnography in terms of definition, process, and potential ethical dilemmas. The authors propose that ethnographically informed methods can enhance counseling psychology research conducted with multicultural communities and provide better avenues toward a contextual understanding of diversity as it relates to professional inquiry.

Journal article reporting standards for qualitative primary, qualitative meta-analytic, and mixed methods research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report.

“…Also, they use varied forms of language in detailing their processes and findings, which complicates the development of uniform reporting standards. To provide a few examples, methods more widely used in psychology that fall under this rubric include narrative (e.g., Bamberg, 2012;Josselson, 2011), grounded theory (e.g., Charmaz, 2014;Glaser & Strauss, 1967), phenomenological (e.g., Giorgi, 2009;Smith, 2004), critical (e.g., Fine, 2013;Steinberg & Cannella, 2012), discursive (e.g., Pea, 1993;Potter & Wetherell, 1987), performative (e.g., Gergen & Gergen, 2012), ethnographic (e.g., Suzuki, Ahluwalia, Mattis, & Quizon, 2005;Wolcott, 2010), consensual qualitative research (e.g., Hill, 2012), case study (e.g., Fishman & Messer, 2013;Yin, 2013), psychobiography (e.g., Schultz, 2005), and thematic analysis approaches (e.g., Braun & Clarke, 2006;Finfgeld-Connett, 2014). Many of these approaches can take multiple forms by virtue of shifts in philosophical assumptions or the evolution of their procedures.…”

Triggers, Timing and Type: Exploring Developmental Readiness and the Experience of Consciousness Transformation in Graduates of Australian Community Leadership Programs

“…Data for this phase of the study were collected from programs that operate in different Australian states from that in which the first author works. In addition, other measures were implemented to strengthen the trustworthiness and validity of the data analysis (see ''Data Analysis, Trustworthiness and Validity'' section) (Suzuki et al 2005).…”

The Genuine Scientist-practitioner in Vocational Psychology: An Autoethnography

“…189-190). Autoethnography relates readily to interpretive biography (Denzin, 1989) and falls within the ambit of ethnography (Suzuki, Ahluwalia, Mattis, & Quizon, 2005). Ethnography takes interest in what people do and know, how they describe their worlds, and the things that they make and use (Suzuki, Ahluwalia, Mattis, & Quizon, 2005).…”