The rehabilitation of the case-study method

Principles Guiding Practice: A Case Study Analysis of the Principles of Sustainable Agriculture for Diverse Farms

“…Comparative case studies are explanatory in nature and differ from purely descriptive case study designs in important ways (Crowe, Cresswell, Robertson, Huby, Avery, & Sheikh, 2011;Jones & Lyons, 2004;Radley & Chamberlain, 2012;Rubaie, 2002;Yin, 2009). Explanatory or comparative casestudy designs usually have objectives associated with reaching conclusions that are universal, at least to all of the cases examined and often that are more generally applicable to a population of cases that are similar to the cases studied in terms of their key attributes (Lloyd-Jones, 2003).…”

El uso del estudio de casos en la investigación en psicoterapia

“…Otra ventaja de los Estudios de Caso es que, al trabajar con el caso en su complementarias. Mientras que los métodos más rígidos plantean modelos donde se va de la hipótesis a su prueba o refutación, el estudio de caso permite partir de la información obtenida en el campo (Rubaie, 2002). Con justicia las metodologías cualitativas, al menos si se utiliza un diseño de investigación importada de las metodologías cuantitativas.…”

Multi-family anger management: a solution-focused approach

“…I consider the case study method to be particularly useful for the analysis ofthe therapeutic process inherent in social work with groups. When discussing the case-study method and its connection to group therapy, Walton (cited in Rubaie, 2002) predicts that the current rethinking within the scientific field, with its stronger focus on interpretation and meaning, will promote the development of bolder, more qualitative and subjective investigative approaches that will benefit clinical fields such as group therapy.…”

“…Moon et. al (cited in Rubaie, 2002) suggest that qualitative research methods can provide a scientific, holistic way of approaching therapy, with all its "messiness" intact. I would strongly agree with these assertions made by Walton, Todd and Stanton, and Moon (cited in Rubaie, 2002).…”

“…Todd and Stanton (cited in Rubaie, 2002) argue that "life and research are inevitably messy", particularly in a field like couple/family therapy, which is concerned with complex, systemic changes in human beings (p. 33). Moon et.…”