Assuming Curiosity: Infusing Doctoral Training to Incorporate Qualitative Research
Location
DeSantis Room 2057
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Workshop
Start Date
16-1-2020 1:15 PM
End Date
16-1-2020 2:05 PM
Abstract
The APA Accredited Counseling Psychology Doctoral Psychology Program at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas has a unique emphasis and focus on Qualitative research. Our program’s strengths based, postmodern-oriented framework for training makes for an epistemological and ontological fit with qualitative research approaches in all areas of our training. In this panel presentation, we describe how qualitative research is infused in all aspects of our program, including dissertations, pilot studies, Faculty research, training clinic, and classes in consultation and program evaluation, as well as in research methods. We also conduct qualitative research in Spanish with our dissertation students. We provide discrete examples of how we implement qualitative research into our program. The faculty who teach Qualitative Research I, Qualitative Research II, Program Evaluation, Consultation, and research conducted in the University’s training clinic will share ideas and how we work together. We will share the ways in which we infuse our courses and link our training to utilize qualitative research in different ways. Over the years we continue to identify ways to improve how we train our students to work from a stance of genuine curiosity and cultural humility. We do this in the way we train them to think as clinicians and as researchers. The faculty also conduct qualitative research and include students in the process, helping to mentor them into their professional identities. Dissertation students all conduct qualitative research and implement topics that offer ways to improve services to our clients as well as improvements in training students.
Keywords
Qualitative Research, Lectures, Research, Program Evaluation
Assuming Curiosity: Infusing Doctoral Training to Incorporate Qualitative Research
DeSantis Room 2057
The APA Accredited Counseling Psychology Doctoral Psychology Program at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas has a unique emphasis and focus on Qualitative research. Our program’s strengths based, postmodern-oriented framework for training makes for an epistemological and ontological fit with qualitative research approaches in all areas of our training. In this panel presentation, we describe how qualitative research is infused in all aspects of our program, including dissertations, pilot studies, Faculty research, training clinic, and classes in consultation and program evaluation, as well as in research methods. We also conduct qualitative research in Spanish with our dissertation students. We provide discrete examples of how we implement qualitative research into our program. The faculty who teach Qualitative Research I, Qualitative Research II, Program Evaluation, Consultation, and research conducted in the University’s training clinic will share ideas and how we work together. We will share the ways in which we infuse our courses and link our training to utilize qualitative research in different ways. Over the years we continue to identify ways to improve how we train our students to work from a stance of genuine curiosity and cultural humility. We do this in the way we train them to think as clinicians and as researchers. The faculty also conduct qualitative research and include students in the process, helping to mentor them into their professional identities. Dissertation students all conduct qualitative research and implement topics that offer ways to improve services to our clients as well as improvements in training students.