Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy (McLeod 2010)
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Q)b anZM0 • This book has been written at a point in the history of counselling and psychotherapy at which there is enormous external pressure on the profession to produce evidence of its effectiveness.
9q,] ^L o-l5^0 • The aim of this book is to provide the conceptual understanding and practical tools required to conduct systematic, high-quality therapy case studies.
OH%AR8NeS$x0 A Few Purposes in Mind心理学空间Q%_%S;}ag+qA
• To make a contribution to shared professional and scientific knowledge, by presenting carefully documented and rigorously analysed case-based evidence
9R1O&c~xo ^ e0 • To enable users of therapy and practitioners to gain an understanding of what actually happens in different forms of therapy for different client problems心理学空间!rMi+F LU
• To provide a structure for personal and professional development in therapists, in the form of opportunities to reflect on practice心理学空间1K{py O \:{5z
The advantages of case study methods
S iII!Eq7q3Hcj c0 • The case study as a form of narrative knowing
K(}Vy/B:\n|9}0 • The case study as a means of representing complexity心理学空间*Q$`(})k)ZM \3s
• Contexuality as an essential feature of case study research
]a_,J [bg^L_5U0 • Describing and analyzing practical expertise in action心理学空间RQd+Au)dU
• Developing a critical perspective
I5?'s&t/I[ `x&y0 • Flexibility心理学空间Pai2M q b
• Analysing and reporting innovative practice心理学空间)U4YNx Clc'OH)`
• Learning from unusual cases心理学空间 ] O$Ac`h
• Integration into training and practice心理学空间 ifO/] ER*|

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3uMIv#{ H9[#c0 • Are case studies necessary?
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• How is it possible to assess whether a case study is plausible and credible, or biased and worthless?
1Ed!V'kGO0 Traditional clinical case study
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Y9e @8o1j8T K0 • However, these case studies do not provide reliable evidence about what actually happens in a case, because they are not able to supply data that can be subjected to any kind of independent scrutiny. 心理学空间5u~ Vr7D
• In addition, there is good reason to believe that the information that is provided in a typical clinical case study may be constructed around selective remembering and reporting on the part of the therapist-author.
V&p{.f.V#s0 Limitations
{aC_7z3Thx|t0 • It is impossible to recall everything that happened in a therapy session: it seems inevitable that important information may have been lost心理学空间,?v4[ B o"zn0b
• Writing a retrospective account of a session introduces the possibility that the writer has reconstructed events in line with his or her pre-existing assumptions心理学空间:L R"f;yYFa

({j/r!Y-K i#X0]7Y0 • There is an absence of other perspectives – for instance, the views of the client regarding the helpfulness of the therapy
{"[U"L4T2~*L0 • There is no way of checking whether the interpretation of the material that has been collected is rigorous, systematic and comprehensive
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• The tendency for contemporary therapy writers to publish case examples or vignettes, rather than full-blown case studies, serves to exacerbate these difficulties, because only selected segments of case materials are presented. 心理学空间'ZJ5jX's4h&B/C
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• The history of case study research in counselling and psychotherapy can be viewed a struggle between a desire to retain the valuable qualities of traditional therapist-generated clinical case studies, while introducing some elements of methodological rigour.
!_;R}4Fq3C(QDc._#Y0 Criticisms of case study methods
*d9_`#z"Y9Z7w7|+b0 • Case studies are biased, and merely function as vehicles for publicizing the pre-existing assumptions of those who carry them out
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G*DVX9v.o,|0 • Case studies are merely descriptive, and tell us nothing about causality
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cm/}#b0lA@G3[0 • Case studies are ethically problematic; it is impossible to guarantee anonymity to participants心理学空间\HgMjUqi
• Case studies can provide fascinating, detailed accounts of human experience, but are hard to summarize in a form that can lead to an accumulation of evidence
S#a-w,kTo!r0 • Case studies may be informative for practitioners, but do not generate evidence that is relevant for policy-making心理学空间FR,f ^ ?%\TJ
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Core ethical issues
v7z#GH7G%W+C'^0 • Obtaining informed consent from clients, in relation to being a subject of a therapy case study心理学空间9No'}ed.eE
• Maintaining confidentiality
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Ethical Guidelines for Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
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• Authors of therapy case studies should be transparent about the ethical procedures that have been conducted in relation to their studies, and provide details of these procedures within all case publications
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5lc8~sOp7MV0 • The ethical procedures used within any case study project must always be subject to expert external scrutiny, in the form of an institutional approval committee or board, or an equivalent consultative process心理学空间M\ Nk:g
• It is advised that, wherever possible, prospective informed consent for in-principle case study participation should be obtained from clients before the commencement of therapy, and then at all further stages of the inquiry cycle up to and including the final release to publish (process consent). The person who undertakes the informed consent procedure must not be the therapist conducting the case
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• In situations where prospective informed consent is not feasible, alternative consent procedures must be approved by an appropriate institutional approval committee or board, or an equivalent consultative group, and include the involvement of an independent consultant who will undertake all negotiations with the client
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• Good practice in case study research involves providing the client with an opportunity to comment on a draft of the case report, and to stipulate the deletion or disguising of material for confidentiality purposes. Good practice involves encouraging the client to make a personal statement about the case report to be included in the final published version心理学空间j6gD1A"s(}J

L!L'N"^#N0 • Clients must be offered support, from an expert independent consultant as well as the researcher and/or therapist, at the point at which they are invited to comment on the draft report. If possible, this support should continue to be available to the client for a period of 5 years following publication of the study心理学空间8hVqi7ofK ESp8]2s
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• In case study research where the principal investigator is not the therapist for the case, the therapist should undergo an informed consent and release process similar to that of the client心理学空间_9p5L F-xoI r
• In case study research where the therapist is the principal investigator, the therapist must engage in clinical supervision or personal therapy with the explicit contracted aim of examining personal factors associated with the case study work, as a means of ameliorating the impact of these factors on (a) the client, (b) bias within the case report and (c) the well-being the author
XCgG2k0 Principles of systematic case study research心理学空间A k!xFWAZ(o
• Creating as rich a data set as possible, based on multiple sources of information, including description of the context within which the therapy took place
K'I7nx.^Tn0 • Engaging the interest of the reader by telling the story of what happened within the case
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• Use multiple analysts, rather than depending on a single perspective on the data. Also, if possible, more than one person should be involved in data collection
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0|&W6dj/N(V\-q5Lb0 • Critically examine alternative interpretations of the data – be critical and scholarly, rather than using the case study to ‘sell’ an approach to therapy
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• Try to find out what the client thinks about the therapy he or she has received, and about the analysis of the case data心理学空间2S)InY(l4|H
• Be reflexive – provide relevant information about the author(s), to allow readers to take potential sources of bias into account
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Toolkit for collecting and analysing case material
8P | ]V(LJ B+r(e0 • Therapist notes
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• Process measures
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• Client and therapist interviews
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• 1. Pragmatic case studies
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|/H:],pMb ZtI0 • 3. Hermeneutic single case efficacy design (HSCED)
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• 5. Narrative case studies心理学空间2pY\y4L? yc/^#}
Documenting everyday therapeutic practice: Pragmatic case studies心理学空间9w&gy!Cd'VCq,OM
• Pragmatism focuses on case studies that address particular practical problems in local and time-specific contexts rather than on the abstract, universal, quantitative knowledge of timeless laws and principles (Fishman 1999, p. 131)心理学空间mV*d%Y Xw~
Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy
8Q9` c6S8k CK2NK0 • http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu (Dan Fishman 2005)
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• GOALS OF THE JOURNAL
*T8R.P*?3l0 • 1) To generate a growing database of systematic, rigorous, and peer-reviewed therapy case studies across a variety of theoretical approaches.
.S H&A-S#P}Ie6C0 • 2) To pilot-test the special advantages of online, case study journals in applied psychology generally by exemplifying in detail their ability to make large amounts of qualitative and quantitative, peer-reviewed information particularly timely, accessible, searchable, and pragmatically and theoretically valuable.心理学空间 @8Qf T0?"?.E+A}
• 3) To act as a vehicle for progress in therapy case-study method through the process of example, critical dialogue, and cross-case analysis.
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• 1. Case context and method
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• 3. Guiding conception with research and clinical experience support心理学空间0^3gfDt,Y
• 4. Assessment of the client’s problems, goals, strengths and history
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#D&lB}8P0 • 6. Course of therapy
!K4j%Z A4vy.s@M0 • 7. Therapy monitoring and use of feedback information
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(b U-BG'F#s0 Suggestions for improving pragmatic case studies
#q+mb-eEcQbq0 • Author reflexivity
3d!bm%C!u0 • More emphasis on the therapeutic relationship心理学空间H9p4l'dy?6b
• Transparency around ethical procedures
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-^0AGy7`9VMT[0 • Reporting of contextual factors
;\ o+W-m OC:T:KR0 • Adoption of a dialogical approach
'K&y/N F){S ]0 • A more focused publication strategy
0L1F2{?'xh0 Evaluating the effectiveness of therapy: n=1 time-series case studies心理学空间G }/|Y u;w
• Had its origin in early 20th century behavioral research lab. As a vehicle for hypothesis-testing, based on the following methodological principles:心理学空间)RY&Ez5E&G5Y S~
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• Reliable and valid measurement of outcome variables心理学空间$bZp#YJW"x:Ec"C
• Accurate description of the intervention that is being assessed心理学空间Vx7bi Yml
• Time-series analysis of patterns of change
#LC;e/N7Zt(b E0 • The logic of replication心理学空间w3uCW5E4n/i
Questions 心理学空间Yiu/j1V%c whH
• Will I be able to identify with confidence, before therapy begins, the key outcome targets that will be the focus of therapy?心理学空间'P5C,I*q_Sy"k!FA
• Do I have access to some means of reliably measuring these outcome variables?心理学空间k @.uw,E$s(U
• Can I set up a pre-therapy baseline period of at least 3 weeks (and preferably much longer) when my client will complete key assessment measures, but not receive therapy?
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• Am I comfortable with my client completing an assessment scale every week during therapy?
Zy J c4{d,p0 • Can my model of therapy be broken down into discrete interventions, or a standard sequence of tasks?
5R|LakGgi,{0 • Can I set up a post-therapy series of follow-up measurement occasions?
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Using multiple judges in evaluating the effectiveness of therapy: HSCED
7xabm+f VU&[ r0 • As an alternative to n=1 design, based in a quasi-judicial paradigm for inquiry, the rationales for HSCED are (Robert Elliot 2001, 2002):
_4kk EA/eq0 • The image of the person in counselling and psychotherapy
7~u ]K G'D9|0 • Re-thinking the concept of causality心理学空间2@ ]"Fg\b
• Methodical hermeneutics as a means of creating reliable knowledge (Rennie 2000, 2001)
'|3JqAFo YW0 • A quasi-judicial analytic framework心理学空间m.]"VE,xu%Ry7t
HSCED in action
*L:sr X&su0 • To assemble a rich case record, for example comprising factual information about the client and therapist, quantitative questionnaire measures, process measures administered on a regular basis, end-of-therapy interviews, therapist process notes, transcripts of sessions, etc. … The key point is that a variety of sources of information are ready to hand, so that interpretations made on the basis of specific client statements or claims can always be checked. 心理学空间d2yJg+E$] P

3I.f%z|(V'c @.S2`0 • The ‘case book’ is interpreted from two competing positions: an ‘affirmative’ position and a ‘sceptic’ position. The rival interpretations can be carried out either by a lone researcher, who formulates each interpretation in turn, or by separate teams of researchers. 心理学空间V/Edlq/W
• The interpretation of case data is guided by ‘case law’, explicit rules for arriving at an agreed interpretation of evidence. 心理学空间EE ]q Qk4le
Theory-building case studies
#?%}#K&fNz C!lmv0 • In the field of counselling and psychotherapy, virtually all the good ideas have come from practice. There are very few examples of good ideas that have emerged from pure science, laboratory studies. What this means is that practising counsellors and psychotherapists have always used their experience with clients as a means of thinking about theory and coming up with new ideas.
E%}:b Q^R!|*y0 Basic principles of theory-building case study research
&mN(J;_-`b^!X0 • Develop a theoretical starting-point心理学空间 o+HQ-B(D0f|
• Selection of a case
'~g&|0}R:P z1l0 • Construction of a rich case record
5j z r.ck\0 • Immersion in the case心理学空间f])CjREm
• Applying the theory to the case心理学空间M3^d'xJ W/Hh_
• Identifying gaps in the theory: applying the case to the theory
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• Testing the revised version of the theory against further cases心理学空间9gJ.f,FxQ-O ^?
Exploring the meaning of the therapy experience: Narrative case studies心理学空间MY'PY5u~d;F
• The aim of a narrative case study is to ‘tell the story’ of the experience of therapy, to convey what it was like to be a participant in therapy. It is successful if it expresses the meaning of therapy.
`-g:^-^(z Y}0 • Since this kind of case study does not represent a single approach, it is not possible to identify a set of methodological principles that can be followed.
df:Y1JK0 Strategies for constructing a narrative case study心理学空间 J^:T/sp9hhp
• Writing an autobiographical retrospective account心理学空间6NykY yh
• Diary or journal entries心理学空间#I*l!M:tAU/g
• Recordings心理学空间)bJXuU0l/b NAl
• Artifacts created during therapy, or associated with therapy心理学空间!e f:^,M;F)LA0q
• Interviews
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Exemplar narrative case studies
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• Writing therapy stories (Dan McAdams & Jonathan Adler 2007, 2008)心理学空间;Q)I YcTN9z,Ub
• Life history approaches to therapy case study research (e.g. Geller, Norcrosis & Orlinsky 2005)
|Bz~8f2_n)s0 • Autobiographical and fictional narrative case studies (e.g. Yvonne Bates 2006)心理学空间"^isg3m"]U'K)J
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• One of the ways in which a professional group can take user narratives seriously is to collect, catalogue and review them, as a means of distilling the wisdom that they contain. It would be a good idea for someone to undertake this task in respect of the counselling and psychotherapy literature. www.psychspace.com心理学空间网
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1981 陽明醫學院畢業
1983-1988 北榮精神科住院醫師
1989- 北榮精神科主治醫師
1991-1992 美國辛辛那堤大學精神科國際精神分析自體心理學研究中心研究員
2001-2003 台灣精神醫學會監事
2004-2010 台灣心理治療學會理事