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) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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知识的形态：咨询心理学研究中的情境分析。

情境分析 (SA) 是一种强大的方法，可以直观地绘制定性数据。作为 Charmaz 和其他人开发的建构主义基础理论的延伸，Clarke 的情境分析鼓励研究人员将定性数据转换为各种可视化地图，这些地图可以阐明可能被更传统的分析方法掩盖的动态。自从法辛格关于咨询心理学研究扎根理论的里程碑式文章发表十五年以来，我使用来自白人种族影响的混合方法论文中的数据论证了 SA 在咨询心理学中的潜在用途。我详细概述了 SA 的紧迫性及其认识论和方法论基础，重点关注 SA 作为一种批判性的结构分析。每个主要测绘程序——情境、位置、和社交世界/竞技场地图 - 被介绍并提供了示例，说明了 SA 独特的分析能力和洞察力。通过 SA，我主张沿着四个轴在咨询心理学中进行“批判性制图”转向：促进系统级研究和倡导，深化对交叉性的考虑，培养超越后实证主义的替代认识论，以及激发对咨询和心理咨询的定性研究。心理治疗。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。培养超越后实证主义的替代认识论，并激发对咨询和心理治疗的定性研究。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。培养超越后实证主义的替代认识论，并激发对咨询和心理治疗的定性研究。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。