Doing Research in Psychological Therapies: A Step-by-Step Guide

Book she dearly wanted at great price

Just commencing my taught Doctorate programme at the University of Chester, UK with fantastic lecturers in the Social Sciences faculty - and this book is going to be a lifesaver! As well as solid content, beautifully presented and most important of all, structured in the most incredibly helpful way, the whole book is also backed up by a highly generous website, full of templates and resources. The main direction of the content is one of gaining skills: basic skills, essential skills, and then method and methodology skills. The text is rich in structured tables, diagrams, checklists, and easy-to-follow steps, giving a sense of potent support and helpful hand-holding as one finds one's way. Each chapter starts with a clear chapter aim, followed by a crystal clear ladder of steps that make up the chapter contents. The chapter ends with a set of reflective questions and activities to build your researcher skill base. This book feels so different from any predecessors on a similar topic of researching in the counselling or therapy context - and I get a sense that it is going to be a vital resource. The appendix is worth the price of the whole book, offering an essential range of templates to support the research endeavour - with headings and sub-headings to help construct essays, reviews, ethics board applications etc. Within this volume, there is genuine, immediately relevant and applicable help for every stage of the research journey. I suspect it is going to be my best friend over the next four years.

I’m just at the start of my DProf and this book has strengthened my lectures with a detailed, accessible step by step explanation of the research process. Joel Vos is clearly a research expert and has the generosity to share all of their understanding and knowledge to help those of us for the words epistemology, ontology and the like are new. I highly recommend.