December 11, 2015 

Qualitative analysis research in clinical psychology and psychotherapy

Symposium
Service de psychologie clinique systémique & psychodynamique

Clinical psychologists and qualitative researchers are often engaged in activities that are certainly different but also have some similarities.

This symposium is primarily intended to facilitate meetings, to build relationships and to exchange ideas with the prospect of new collaborations between various university research centers. It is also meant for all students - developing a master or a doctoral thesis - with an interest in qualitative analysis methods. Finally, it is open to clinicians interested in research.

Keynote speakers:
Pascal Antoine (University of Lille 3)
Jan De Mol (Catholic University of Louvain)
Stéphan Hendrick (University of Mons)
Christophe Lejeune (University of Liège)

Poster Session
Think Tank Session: challenges faced by qualitative researchers in
the field of clinical psychology and psychotherapy

Poster submission and inscription:
You are invited to submit your poster projet in a PDF version to alexandra.stolnicu@umons.ac.be
The poster session will be held during lunch time.
Dead line : 20/11/2015

Registration information:
Please send your registration to alexandra.stolnicu@umons.ac.be
before December 5, 2015

Location:
Salle académique
Boulevard Dolez 31 7000 Mons
Click here to get the Google Map link

Rationale

Especially focused on methodological issues, this symposium is intented for people interested in qualitative research, clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
They are many complex questions. To bring only a few examples: How do families make sense of their experiences of change during a multiple family therapy? How does a crisis manager figure out its own therapeutical action? What do divorced couples say about how they manage to preserve parenthood? What does  the experience of children look like when they go through parental separation? How do caregivers make sense of  their rejection attitudes towards alcoholic patients ?

At a time when quantitative research showed both its value and limits when approaching people with mental health problems and their families, it is important to take stock and to build bridges between researchers and clinicians.
Clinical psychologists and qualitative researchers are often engaged in activities that are certainly different but also have some similarities.

The task is to listen to someone - a patient or a witness - to grasp the meaning of what he/she communicates to us and to form a representation of this testimony.
What can we learn from one another? What are the contributions of qualitative research to clinical psychology and vice versa? What are the thought and reasoning processes involved and likely to elicit significations in one or another context? Etc.

This symposium is primarily intended to facilitate meetings, to build relationships and to exchange ideas with the prospect of new collaborations between various university research centers. It is also meant for all students - developing a master or a doctoral thesis - with an interest in qualitative analysis methods. Finally, it is open to clinicians interested in research.

Program