The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to qualitative methods, offering exciting opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data and to develop rich and useful findings. In this book, Scott D. Churchill introduces readers to existential phenomenological research, an approach that seeks an in-depth, embodied understanding of subjective human existence that reflects a person's values, purposes, ideals, intentions, emotions, and relationships. This method helps researchers understand the lives and needs of others by helping identify and set aside theoretical and ideological prejudgments. About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods.
Scott Churchill, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas, where he has previously served as chair and founding director of its masters programs in psychology. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and past president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32), Dr. Churchill was recently re-elected to the APA Council of Representatives and re-appointed as editor-in-chief of The Humanistic Psychologist, now published by APA Journals. He was recently elected by the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology as their representative to the executive board for APA's Division of Quantitative and Qualitative Research (Division 5). He currently serves on the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology's (Division 24) Task Force on Ethics, as well as on the editorial boards of Human Studies, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Qualitative Psychology, and others. Dr. Churchill has presented keynotes and invited addresses at professional conferences around the world.
Series Foreword-Clara E. Hill and Sarah Knox 1. Conceptual Foundations of Existential Phenomenological Research The "Human Science" Approach as a Way of Seeing What Is the Key Insight of Existential Phenomenology? Summary 2. Getting Started: Selecting an Experience to Study Formulating a Research Question Summary 3. Collecting the Data Attending to Ethical Considerations Selecting Participants Developing an Experiential "Approach" to Data Collection Data-Generating Activities 4. First Phase of Data Analysis: Focusing on Moments Within the Whole Doing Psychology Phenomenologically Mentoring EPR in the Classroom: Training the Research Team Summary 5. Second Phase of Data Analysis: Comprehensive Synthesis Individual Structural Description: A Comprehensive Synthesis General Structural Description: The Intuition of Essential Meaning Summary 6. Writing the Research Report Introduction Section Method Section Results Section Discussion Section Summary 7. Conclusions The Place of Phenomenology Within the Qualitative Tradition Achieving Methodological Integrity Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions Appendix: Exemplar Studies References Index About the Author About the Series Editors
