Counseling Psychology

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The two-research paper I choose to do my study on they both is dealing with the person mental state and they both are phenomenological studies because their approach has concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience. This week study Journal of Counseling Psychology has help me pick these two articles because I was interested in how a person mental state effect that person. In Journal of Counseling Psychology ties this two article up by, “inquiry aimed at describing clarifying human experience as it appears in people’s lives”.(Polkinghorne,2005) Also it mention in the article of Journal of Counseling Psychology that in qualitative methods it gather up data that will serve a purpose by providing evidence , “for …show more content…
The research paper I choose Qualitative Research in Counseling Psychology and Looking Back at Adolescent Depression seem to be phenomenological because it is dealing with the person thought process and phenomenological have concentrated on the person consciousness and their direct experience. In Qualitative Research in Counseling Psychology is different from the journal Looking Back at Adolescent Depression because it addresses the history and it study the current state of qualitative research with dealing with counseling psychology. Qualitative Research in Counseling Psychology is different from the journal Looking Back at Adolescent Depression because it goes in detail of the, “historical and disciplinary origins as well as basic assumptions and underpinnings of qualitative research in general”, as well as within counseling psychology and the article Looking Back at Adolescent Depression does not talk about history (Morrow,2007).The article Looking Back at Adolescent Depression is different from . Qualitative Research in Counseling Psychology because their focus was on the, “Concerns over adolescents’ mental health, particularly related to depression, are becoming increasingly apparent” (McCarthy, Downes, & Sherman