Abstract
This article is aimed to present a new approach to clinical research and also to clinical work based on Grounded Theory and on the software developed from it, Atlas.ti. It includes two practical applications of this software, one is the analysis of a clinical interview and the other the assessment of nine interviews taken with the Five Minutes Speech Sample belonging to five couples of parents. As it is presented below, each analysis was performed as a circular process, starting from the data, grouping them into categories, creating codes and then returning to the data in order to sustain them and to establish relations between them. In our view, this is a new and interesting way of approaching clinical data which gives the clinician the possibility of developing a deeper understanding of the patient/client without loosing himelf/herself in the theories of the psychological orientation the psychotherapist belongs to.
Highlights
This article is aimed to present a new approach to clinical research and to clinical work based on Grounded Theory and on the software developed from it, Atlas.ti
We specify the conditions in which our phenomena exist, the actions/interactions that they concern and the associated results and their consequences. This means that our theoretical formulations are applied to these situations or circumstances and not to others
When we change the conditions, the theoretical formulation should change in order to adjust itself to the new conditions
Summary
“Every human being is building a model of the world based on a combination of genetically determined factors and the personal experience. The way in which a person perceives and makes representations (symbolizes) of the stimuli is related to this subjective process of selecting information from the environment (material, social, etc.) This is a process that selects the data that corresponds to or confirms our needs and our experiences, more or less pleasant, and at the same time blocks the entrance in the consciousness of the information perceived as threatening for the Self. This universal inclination, to appropriate ourselves of the world based on subjective schemes, is revealed through language. This is why what for a person has the subjective significant of a big trauma, for another is just an easy surpassable event
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