1. Meghan Hall- MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Narrative Research
Meghan Hall- MA
Clinical Mental Health Counseling

2. What is Narrative Research?
Stories
Narratives
Describe the lives of individuals

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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?

7. References:
Creswell, J. (2015). Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research. [Fifth Ed.] Pearson. Upper Saddle River, NJ.