Table of Contents

The Role of Case Studies in the Development of Theory and Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The Development of Systematic Methods and Principles for Collecting and Analyzing Case Material
Justifying Case-Based Research: The Role of Systematic Case Studies in Building an Evidence Base for Therapy Policy and Practice
Moral and Ethical Issues in Therapy Case Study Research
Collecting and Analyzing Case Material: A Practitioner and Student Toolkit
Documenting Everyday Therapeutic Practice: Pragmatic Case Studies
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Therapy: N=1 Time-Series Case Studies
Using Multiple Judges in Evaluating the Effectiveness of Therapy: The Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design (HSCED)
Theory-Building Case Studies
Exploring the Meaning of the Therapy Experience: Narrative Case Research
Team-Based Case Study Research for Practitioners and Students

About the Author

John McLeod has held appointments in universities in the UK, New Zealand and Italy, and is currently Professor of Counselling at the Institute for Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, Dublin, and Professor of Psychology, University of Oslo. He is committed to promoting the relevance of research as a means of informing therapy practice and improving the quality of services that are available to clients, and has received an award from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy for his exceptional contribution to research. His writing has influenced a generation of trainees in the field of counselling, counselling psychology and psychotherapy, and his books are widely adopted on training programmes across the world.

Reviews

Comprehensive, passionate, right out at the growing edge of the psychotherapy research and even slightly beyond it, this book maps out where case study research has come from, what it looks like today, and what its future will look like. Robert Elliott, Professor of Counselling, University of Strathclyde

This is an excellent book that has been needed by the counselling and psychotherapy profession for some considerable time. It has been worth the wait. John McLeod writes in a clearly accessible style easy to read and absorb and his comprehensive book both captures existing methods and identifies potential methods ripe for development. Sue Wheeler, University of Leicester

This is an excellent book, and a very much needed addition to the case study methodology literature. It is very comprehensive and covers all aspects of case study methodology. The text addresses the issue intelligently, but is also an introduction for those engaging in case study research. Mark Widdowson, Director of Training, CPTI Edinburgh

This book does an outstanding job in pulling together the crucially important literature on case studies in psychotherapy practice and research into a coherent, engaging and scholarly whole. Daniel Fishman, Editor-in-Chief, Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA