Book Reviews Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health and Psychotherapy: a guide for students and practitioners

When deciding my tasks for the summer, reviewing this book was one of them. Lying next to it was a pile of largely qualitative theses to be examined. Not only did this book look a more interesting job to start with, but if it accomplished what it set out to do it would make my task of examining easier and of higher quality. This edited book brings together some well-established proponents of different qualitative methods to describe their approaches. It is aimed at informing those working in the mental health and psychotherapeutic field who are, or wish to be, engaged in researching their practice. It consists of three parts, Part 1 concerning getting started, Part 2 consisting of eight chapters detailing different approaches to qualitative research, and Part 3 returning to issues of assessing quality, current themes and the future. It was good to find the book started with a chapter on th