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Emotion-Focused Therapy
Emotion Focused Therapy: An Agency-Enhancing Approach, Heidi Levitt, PhD, demonstrates how therapists can foster client empowerment while reducing therapist-driven authority.
Reporting your research: How to use APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS)
Psychology professionals learn how to report their research using APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards.
Expressive writing interventions to heal from heterosexism and transphobia: Implications for humanistic therapists
How humanistic therapists can make healing writing interventions available to clients.
Strengths and Flourishing in Psychotherapy
Strengths and Flourishing in Psychotherapy highlights how therapists can engage character strengths and virtues in psychotherapy regardless of their specific approach to therapy.
Reconciling cultural and professional power in psychotherapy
In their article in The Humanistic Psychologist, Levitt et al. provide guidance on how to address both cultural and professional power within the therapeutic relationship.
Client Contributions in Psychotherapy
In Client Contributions in Psychotherapy, guest experts focus on the client's part in the psychotherapy process.
Questioning established qualitative methods and assumptions
Special section of Qualitative Psychology (2021, Volume 8, Issue 3) concerning issues of consensus, intersubjective confirmation, and epistemic privilege; member checking as an evaluation of methodological integrity; the role of replication in qualitative methods; and the contributions of qualitative methods in investigations of causality.
The Methodological Integrity of Critical Qualitative Research: Principles to Support Design and Research Review [PDF]
This article articulates the principles and practices that underlie methodological integrity to demonstrate how they can be applied to support critical qualitative research.
Essentials of Critical-Constructivist Grounded Theory Research
This book provides a step-by-step description of how to use critical-constructivist grounded theory (CCGT) methods.
Interview with Div. 5 member Heidi Levitt
Winner of the Distinguished Contributions in Qualitative Research Award, Heidi Levitt shares key teaching insights, and her involvement in qualitative study.
Div. 5 awards 2020
These scholars and teachers will receive awards for distinguished work and contributions in quantitative and qualitative research and education.
Reporting Qualitative Research in Psychology, Revised Edition
This book shows researchers how to use APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Research, Mixed Methods Article Reporting Standards, and Qualitative Meta‑Analysis Reporting Standards.
What’s new in the seventh edition APA publication manual for qualitative and mixed methods researchers
The newest edition of the publication manual provides useful information on qualitative methods for researchers submitting papers, academics and reviewers.
Reporting Qualitative Research in Psychology: How to Meet APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards, Revised Edition
This book shows researchers how to use APA’s Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Research (JARS-Qual), Mixed Methods Article Reporting Standards (MMARS), and Qualitative Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (QMARS).
2019 Div. 5 awards: Call for nominations
Information on how to make nominations for the 2019 awards.
Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Primary, Qualitative Meta-Analytic, and Mixed Methods Research in Psychology [PDF]
This article details reporting standards for a wide range of qualitative primary, qualitative meta-analytic, and mixed methods research.
Recommendations for Designing and Reviewing Qualitative Research in Psychology: Promoting Methodological Integrity [PDF]
This paper presents recommendations from the Task Force on Resources for the Publication of Qualitative Research of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology, a section of APA Division 5.
Qualitative Psychology
This journal creates an outlet for innovative methodological and/or theoretical work that advances qualitative inquiry in psychology.
Balancing Dangers: GLBT Experience in a Time of Anti-GLBT Legislation [PDF]
In this qualitative project, 13 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people were interviewed about their experience during the process of a constitutional amendment to restrict marriage to one man and one woman.
Negotiating Connection to GLBT Experience: Family Members' Experience of Anti-GLBT Movements and Policies [PDF]
This study explored the experiences of family members of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals just before a referendum to change a state constitution and define marriage as a legal contract between one man and one woman.