The Clinical Perspective in Fieldwork

Unlike other types of qualitative research, the clinical perspective in field research does not aim to be impartial and uninvolved. The clinician is usually a consultant brought in specifically to effect change in an organization, and therefore works under a very different set of technical and ethical restraints. Edgar Schein succinctly outlines the clinical perspective in field research, how it differs from other types of qualitative research and its inherent rewards and difficulties.

Editors' Introduction

5

(2)

Preface

7

(4)

Discovering the Clinical Perspective

11

(12)

Some Historical Perspective

12

(8)

Contrast Between Ethnographic and Clinical as a Heuristic Device

20

(1)

The Issue of Professionalism and Ethics

21

(1)

The Plan for This Book

22

(1)

How the Clinical and the Ethnographic Relationship Differ

23

(16)

Who Initiates the Process of Inquiry?

23

(6)

What Implicit Model of the Organization Operates?

29

(3)

Whose Needs Drive the Process of Inquiry and Data Gathering?

32

(1)

The Psychological Contract in the Two Situations

33

(6)

Summary and Conclusions

39

(1)

Gathering, Analyzing, and Validating Data

39

(17)

Conceptual Focus and Type of Data Gathered

39

(12)

Determination of Scientific Validity

51

(3)

Clinical Data as a Source of Better Theory

54

(1)

Summary and Conclusions

55

(1)

Professional and Ethical Issues in Clinical Versus Ethnographic Work

56

(14)

How Should the Investigator Be Trained to Conduct Inquiry?

56

(3)

How Clinicians and Ethnographers Are Alike

59

(4)

Some Ethical Dilemmas in Fieldwork with Human Systems

63

(5)

The Clinical Perspective in Summary

68

(1)

A Personal Note

68

(2)

References

70

(2)

About the Author

72

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