Qualitative health psychology : theories and methods

Author(s)

• Murray, M.
• Chamberlain, Kerry

Bibliographic Information

Qualitative health psychology : theories and methods

edited by Michael Murray and Kerry Chamberlain

SAGE, 1999

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

`This book constitutes a valuable resource for postgraduate students and researchers. Most.... of the chapters succeed in providing a clear and comprehensive introduction to the various approaches and/or methods, thus enabling the reader to make an informed decision about whether or not they wish to pursue the topic further. The book as a whole is also very well referenced and this makes it a source of essential information for students and researchers with an interest in qualitative health psychology' - Health Psychology Update This book explains the role of qualitative research within health psychology. Theories and methods from a qualitative perspective are highly varied but, in general, differ from the positivist approach which is concerned with quantifying the individual risk factors presumed to cause health and illness behaviour. This book shows clearly how a qualitative approach offers a better understanding of the experience of illness while locating it in its broader social context. Providing a detailed examination of these issues, the book is organized into three sections - the first considers some of the main theoretical perspectives underlying qualitative research in health psychology including discourse analysis and narrative as well as the social context and embodiment of health and illness; the second examines some of the practical issues involved in conducting qualitative research with different populations, such as children and the terminally ill; and the final section considers a range of analytic issues and specific analytic approaches such as grounded theory and action research, and the evaluation of qualitative methods.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: CONSTRUCTING HEALTH AND ILLNESS THROUGH LANGUAGE Health Psychology and Qualitative Research - Michael Murray and Kerry Chamberlain Social Realms and the Qualities of Illness Experience - Alan Radley Understanding Embodied Experience - Lucy Yardley The Storied Nature of Health and Illness - Michael Murray Discourse, Health and Illness - Mandy Morgan Making Sense of Illness Experiences - Mary-Jane Paris Spink Feminist Approaches to Qualitative Health Research - Jane M Ussher PART TWO: CONVERSING ABOUT HEALTH AND ILLNESS Interviewing the Ill and the Healthy - Cynthia M Mathieson Talking to Children about Health and Illness - Christine Eiser and Sarah Twamley Qualitative Research in the Field of Death and Dying - R Glynn Owens and Sheila Payne Cross-Cultural Research in Health Psychology - Jane Selby PART THREE: TRANSFORMING TALK INTO TEXT Using Grounded Theory in Health Psychology - Kerry Chamberlain Action Research - Sue Curtis, Helen Bryce and Carla Treloar Doing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Jonathan A Smith, Maria Jarman and Mike Osborn Shaping Health Psychology - Antonia Lyons Qualitative Research, Evaluation and Representation

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Details

• NCID: BA42321310
• ISBN:
  • 0761956603
  • 0761956611
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 262 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 610.19
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Clinical health psychology
  • LCSH : Clinical health psychology -- Research