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Member Checking: Can Benefits Be Gained Similar to Group Therapy?

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In this article, the authors suggest that this benefit is similar to some of the components of group therapy, especially in normalizing the phenomenon being experienced, and they can feel a sense of relief that their feelings are validated and that they are not alone.
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Member checking continues to be an important quality control process in qualitative research as during the course of conducting a study, participants receive the opportunity to review their statements for accuracy and, in so doing; they may acquire a therapeutic benefit. The authors of this article suggest that this benefit is similar to some of the components of group therapy, especially in normalizing the phenomenon being experienced. Even if the participants never meet, they can feel a sense of relief that their feelings are validated and that they are not alone.

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Qualitative inquiry and research design: choosing among five traditions.

TL;DR: Creswell as mentioned in this paper explores the philosophical underpinnings, history and key elements of five qualitative inquiry traditions: biography, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and case study.
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Phenomenological Research Methods

TL;DR: A Phenomenological Analysis of Human Science Research Phenomenology and Human Science Inquiry Intentionality, Noema and Noesis Epoche as discussed by the authors, Phenomenologically Reduction, Imaginative Variation and Synthesis Methods and Procedures for Conducting Human science Research Analyses and Examples.
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Verification Strategies for Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research

TL;DR: The authors argue that qualitative researchers should reclaim responsibility for reliability and validity by implementing verification strategies integral and self-correcting during the conduct of inquiry itself, which ensures the attainment of rigor using strategies inherent within each qualitative design, and moves the responsibility for incorporating and maintaining reliability and validation from external reviewers' judgements to the investigators themselves.
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The theory and practice of group psychotherapy

TL;DR: Yalom as mentioned in this paper described the course of therapy from both the patient's and the therapist's viewpoint in Encounter Groups: First Facts (1973) and Every Day gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy (1974).