Advancing the Comprehensive View of Processes in Psychotherapy by using Qualitative Methods

Therapeutic processes studies aim to understand how interventions work and how they are led to provide benefits for patients. (Hill & Lambert, 2004). There is a real necessity to know what therapists do, think and feel during first-time encounters, throughout their clinical intervention and above all how patients respond to these interventions (Thurin & Thurin, 2007; Hill & Lambert, 2004).

Through our communication, we want to situate our research practices based on qualitative methods. At this end, we will explore three researches using different qualitative analysis: The Grounded Theory Methodology (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) ; The Interpretative Phenomenological analysis (Smith et al., 2006) ; The Explicitation Interview (Vermersch, 1994 ; 2012) ant The Thematic Analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006).

The aim of our symposium is to develop each inductive stage of the research process of our studies, explaining techniques for gathering data, writing up the study and evaluating the findings. Each qualitative method will be clearly described and critically assessed in terms of its own strengths and weaknesses.

Findings will take into account the subjectivity of the patients's lived experience of the first-encounter during a crisis state; of the experts's clinical reasoning during clinical interventions and of the family's voices during a parental separation experience.