Research As Daily Practice

Abstract

This article introduces a series of articles that describe a sequence of research projects that we, as therapists, conducted collaboratively as part of our ongoing daily clinical practice at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre. We designed and completed a set of three formal research studies within the parameters of our work as therapists using an approach we call Research As Daily Practice. There is an intuitive appeal to Research As Daily Practice that comes from (a) privileging therapists' ideas, questions, and curiosities; (b) conducting research flexibly within the time parameters of the daily work of therapists; (c) seeing the processes of conducting research as resonant with the processes of therapy; and (d) showing that meaningful research can be conducted without external funding or resources.