Using thematic analysis in counselling and psychotherapy research: A critical reflection

By Victoria Clarke, Virginia Braun. 2018

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© 2018 British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy In this brief commentary, we critically reflect on the use of thematic analysis, and particularly the approach to thematic analysis we have outlined, in counselling and psychotherapy research. We identify the distinct characteristics of our thematic analysis approach, and highlight some common areas of confusion and poor practice in published thematic analysis research in counselling and psychotherapy.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis? (2020, neutral): “…2019a ; Clarke and Braun 2016; Clarke, Braun, and Hayfield 2015; Terry et al. 2017), encyclopaedia entries (Clarke and Braun 2014a, 2014b), commentaries (Braun and Clarke 2016, 2019a, 2019b, 2019c; Clarke and Braun 2018) and editorials about TA (e.g. Braun and Clarke 2014; Clarke and Braun 2017).”