Case study research Lony Schiltz CRPSant, Luxembourg

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Case study research Lony SchiltzCRP-Santé,
Luxembourg
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Introduction
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Different conceptions of case study research

• Objectivism and constructivism
• Curing in the traditional meaning
• Healing as an objective of the psychotherapeutic
  process
• Benefit for the clinician

Table 1 The ABA design
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Problems linked to case study in clinical
research

• Reduction of the unique to an example
• Classification
• Diagnostic labels
• Confusion between the symptomatic and the
  structural level
• Diagnostic categories overlapping or changing
  during the therapeutic process and / or
  developmental stages
• Personal body- worlds of clients
• Interactions of body and psyche in the patient
  himself

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Problems linked to case study in clinical
research

• Patterns of transformation
• Ups and downs
• Forwards and backwards
• Repetition and variation
• Symmetry and inversion
• Paradox
• Mirroring

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The myth of causal interference

• The polysemic nature of the concept of cause
• The time-sequence
• The teleological cause
• The hidden cause
• The assessment of therapeutic success
• The quest of meaning
• Alternation of loose and tight thinking

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The problem of generalization

• Table 2 Levels of interference
• Statistical generalization
• Analytical generalization
• Definition of the population and the sample

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Conclusion