The Challenge: Tailoring Qualitative Process Research Methods for the Study of Marital and Family Therapeutic Sessions

Although there is an increased interest in looking at psychotherapy in terms of discourse, narrative and dialogue, most psychotherapy research is still quantitative and psychotherapy research in the field of marital and family therapy (MFT) is rather scarce. While qualitative research (QR) is appreciated in the fields of sociology, pedagogy and anthropology, for instance, in the fields of clinical psychology and psychotherapy it has just started to be accepted as a valid kind of research.