The Therapeutic Interview Process in Qualitative Research Studies

The qualitative research interview.

BACKGROUND Interviews are among the most familiar strategies for collecting qualitative data. The different qualitative interviewing strategies in common use emerged from diverse disciplinary perspectives resulting in a wide variation among interviewing approaches. Unlike the highly structured survey interviews and questionnaires used in epidemiology and most health services research, we examin...

The interview in qualitative research.

The qualitative interview in IS research: Examining the craft

The qualitative interview is one of the most important data gathering tools in qualitative research, yet it has remained an unexamined craft in IS research. This paper discusses the potential difficulties, pitfalls and problems of the qualitative interview in IS research. Building on Goffman’s seminal work on social life, the paper proposes a dramaturgical model as a useful way of conceptualizi...

The Psychoanalytic Interview as Inspiration for Qualitative Research

A qualitative research wave has swept through the social sciences during the last decades. Interviews, textual analyses and natural observations have come into widespread use as modes of inquiry. The qualitative research movement is interdisciplinary, and an opening of the social sciences to the humanities has taken place, drawing on hermeneutics, as well as narrative, discursive, conversationa...

process-oriented research: the missing link in iranian translation studies

considering research contributions to translation studies in the iranian context , especially in the recent years , there is a remarkable improvement in terms of both quality and quantity of these studies . most of these studies can be classified in one of the following groups: ( 1 ) the studies which adopt a linguistic -oriented approach , ( 2 ) those with non - linguistic orientations coverin...