Narrative Inquiry (Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods)
"The author provides students, scholars, and practitioners with a wealth of information on narrative inquiry which they can use for clinical practice, research, or scholarly review. I highly recommend this book as the go-to reference for anyone interested in this fascinating method of information-gathering." --Doody's"Wells' task in Narrative Inquiry is quite simple: to suggest that narrative analysis is an important research method that is particularly appropriate for social workresearchers. Wells' talent here is that she makes a strong case for the rigor of narrative methods, not by entering larger epistemological debates, but by clearly elucidating distinct types of narrative analysis and how one might perform them. In this way, Wells shows us, rather thantells us, why narrative analysis should be a more prominent method utilized in the field...Wells' succinct overview of narrative methods explicitly considers what kind of research and questions might benefit from this approach." -- Emily Adlin Bosk, University of Michigan,Qualitative SocialWork