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Qualitative research methods in psychology: Introduction through empirical studies.

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Fischer, C. T. (2006). Qualitative research methods in psychology: Introduction through empirical studies. Boston: Academic Press, 461 pp.

Connie Fischer is to be congratulated, and thanked, for producing such a useful and accessible volume on the use of qualitative research methods in psychology. Based on her almost forty years of experience teaching students about qualitative research and supervising qualitative dissertations, she has developed a keen understanding of the kinds of concerns, questions, and attitudes newcomers often bring to the enterprise of learning how to use qualitative methods. She has brought this understanding together in her introduction to the volume, and been guided by it in her selection of investigators and chapters to be included. What results is a volume that is unique in my own twenty years of experience of and familiarity with qualitative research, which is an extremely reader-friendly, accessible, and engaging book which both explains and illustrates some of the basic components of qualitative research to people who are assumed to know nothing about the approach (i.e., the average student). The care with which she has mentored generations of students comes across clearly in her efforts to render complicated concepts more easily understandable, in her gentle coaching and encouragement of the young investigator as he or she takes his or her first steps along this meandering...

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