Therapeutic play as a qualitative data generation method: A critical reflection
Health SA Gesondheid
Field | Value | |
Title | Therapeutic play as a qualitative data generation method: A critical reflection | |
Creator | Havenga, Yolanda | |
Description | Background: Child-centred research requires researchers to develop research designs that will enable children to express their views in an ethical, appropriate and child-friendly manner and generate rigorous findings. These requirements challenge researchers to develop new methods to generate data with children, and the ‘younger the child, the more intense the challenge’.Aim: The aim of this article was to describe and reflect on the use of therapeutic play as a data generation method by nurse researchers with young children in a child-centred qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual study using a multiple case study strategy.Setting: The study was conducted with young children attending an outpatient department at a public hospital in Gauteng.Methods: Four young children, purposively sampled, participated in six sessions, each based on therapeutic play grounded in the work of Oaklander’s Gestalt play therapeutic approach, facilitated by a nurse researcher. Critical reflection was made about the play therapeutic approach as a data generation method, based on its ability to generate useful data, its implications for data analysis and its ability to be child-enabling and child-centred.Results: The play therapeutic approach, as a data generation method, is capable of generating useful data and amplifying children’s voices in the process.Conclusions: The nurse researcher needs to be highly skilled in this approach as it requires the ability to implement the specific play therapeutic approach in a safe and skilful manner. | |
Publisher | AOSIS Publishing | |
Date | 2019-07-11 | |
Identifier | 10.4102/hsag.v24i0.1136 | |
Source | Health SA Gesondheid; Vol 24 (2019); 8 pages 2071-9736 1025-9848 | |
Language | eng | |
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