In addition to their potential for healing, psychotherapy and counselling offer extraordinary opportunities to observe human experience and behaviour. I suggest practitioners have expertise in and daily access to the phenomena that theories of counselling and psychotherapy seek to explain. Practitioners’ clinical experience can be accumulated and shared through theory-building case study research . This article summarizes the logic of theory‐building case studies and offers practical suggestions for conducting case study research.
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William B. Stiles (2007) studied this question.
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