Department of Psychology, The University of Tennessee.
J Couns Psychol. 2021 Apr;68(3):316-330. doi: 10.1037/cou0000527. Epub 2020 Jul 16.
Situational analysis (SA) is a powerful method for visually mapping qualitative data. As an extension of constructivist grounded theory developed by Charmaz and others, Clarke's situational analysis encourages researchers to transform qualitative data into various visual maps that can illuminate dynamics that may be obscured by more traditional analytic approaches. Fifteen years since Fassinger's landmark article on grounded theory in counseling psychology research, I make an argument for SA's potential uses in counseling psychology using data from a mixed-methods dissertation on White racial affect. I outline the exigency of SA and its epistemological and methodological underpinnings in detail, with a focus on SA as a critical, structural analysis. Each primary mapping procedure-situational, positional, and social worlds/arenas maps-is introduced and examples are provided that illustrate SA's unique analytic capacities and insights. By way of SA, I argue for a "critical-cartographic" turn in counseling psychology along four axes: promoting systems-level research and advocacy, deepening consideration of intersectionality, cultivating alternative epistemologies beyond post-positivism, and invigorating qualitative research on counseling and psychotherapy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
情境分析（SA）是一种强大的方法，可用于直观地映射定性数据。作为 Charmaz 等人开发的建构主义扎根理论的延伸，Clarke 的情境分析鼓励研究人员将定性数据转化为各种可视化地图，这些地图可以阐明可能被更传统的分析方法所掩盖的动态。自 Fassinger 关于咨询心理学研究中的扎根理论的里程碑式文章发表 15 年后，我用一篇关于白人种族情感的混合方法论文的数据，为 SA 在咨询心理学中的潜在用途提出了论据。我详细阐述了 SA 的紧迫性及其认识论和方法论基础，重点介绍了作为批判性、结构性分析的 SA。介绍了每种主要的映射过程——情境、位置和社会世界/舞台地图，并提供了示例，说明了 SA 的独特分析能力和见解。通过 SA，我主张咨询心理学沿着四个轴进行“批判制图”的转变：促进系统层面的研究和倡导，深化对交叉性的考虑，培养超越后实证主义的替代认识论，并激发关于咨询和心理治疗的定性研究。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。
