https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2012.144

Text Analysis within Quantitative and Qualitative Psychotherapy Process Research: Introduction to Special Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2012)
Submitted: February 17, 2013
Accepted: February 17, 2013
Published: February 17, 2013
Psychotherapy process research, text analysis, quantitative methods, qualitative methods
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Omar Carlo Gioacchino Gelo
omar.gelo@unisalento.it
University of Salento, Department of History, Society and Human Studies, Italy.
Silvia Salcuni
University of Padua, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Italy.
Antonello Colli
University of Urbino, Department of Human Sciences, Italy.
The present paper introduces the special issue on Text Analysis in Quantitative and Qualitative Psychotherapy Process Research. The motivation for this special issue grew out of recognition of the following: (1) both quantitative and qualitative psy-chotherapy process research (PPR) make extensive use of text analysis (TA); (2) TA presents different characteristics that serve different aims in quantitative and qualitative PPR; and (3) researchers are not always fully aware of these differences in explicit and systematic ways. The present paper, together with the special issue it introduces, aims at stimulating a more explicit and systematic methodological reflection on the different ways in which TA may be used in quantitative and qualitative PPR. We first outline the general differences between TA in quantitative and qualitative PPR; then, we describe the extent to which the papers in this special issue illustrate these differences. Finally, we conclude by stressing that PPR may significantly benefit from researchers becoming more fully aware of the differences.

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Gioacchino Gelo, O. C., Salcuni, S., & Colli, A. (2013). Text Analysis within Quantitative and Qualitative Psychotherapy Process Research: Introduction to Special Issue. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 15(2), 45–53. https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2012.144

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