Meghan Hall- MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling Narrative Research Meghan Hall- MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling
What is Narrative Research? Stories Narratives Describe the lives of individuals
Key Characteristics of Narrative Research Individual experiences Chronology of the experiences Collecting individual stories Restorying Coding for themes Context or setting Collaborating with participants Creswell, J. (2015). Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research. [Fifth Ed.] Pearson. Upper Saddle River, NJ.
When do you use Narrative Research? When individuals are willing to tell their stories Reduce a commonly held perception Captures an everyday, normal form of data familiar to individuals When stories told to the researchers follow a chronology of events. Focuses on a microanalytic picture
How do you evaluate Narrative Research How do you evaluate Narrative Research? Quality Narrative Research includes Focus on a single or couple individuals and states why these individuals were selected Uses vivid details of the individual’s experience to give a reader a sense of the individual’s life/experience A researcher threads together many different stories in one story line, including key events Gathers broader context of the individual’s life Advances some important themes that come forward in the life of the individual Researcher includes the individual to look over the data and possibly include their input in shaping the final story
Example of Narrative Research: The emotional experiences, stories, of obstetric physicians and nurses who care for mothers and babies where the babies die shortly before (stillbirth), during or immediately after birth. The stories behind physicians and nurses who practice in the world of palliative care perinatology and neonatology. What has shaped their journeys?
References: Creswell, J. (2015). Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research. [Fifth Ed.] Pearson. Upper Saddle River, NJ.