DMFT7111 - Qualitative Research Design and Analysis in Marriage and Family Therapy MFT

Semester Credits: 3 Weeks: 12

This course provides students with the foundational skills essential to the critique and execution of qualitative research, focusing on methods used regularly by marriage and family therapists. Students will learn to evaluate research processes, define research purposes, select appropriate methods for data collection and analysis, interpret findings, and write the research report. Each student will conduct research on self, write a brief auto ethnography, and develop a preliminary methodological design for potential use in the applied dissertation. Selected readings will include qualitative clinical research, and students will take a learning-through-doing/experiential approach that includes reflection-in-action and reflection-after-action.