The potential overturning of conversion therapy bans highlights something wider: therapy isn’t “anything goes.”
We don’t just say or practise whatever we think or believe — our work is guided by evidence, ethics, and professional standards.
#SCOTUS #therapy

One of Paul Flowers’ concluding points in his keynote was the importance of supporting the next generation of qualitative researchers. I think mentorship from more experienced researchers is very advantageous—not only for early career success in academia, but also for achieving impact #qmip2025

In his keynote, Paul Flowers highlighted the use of logic models—within qualitative intervention development—as a key tool for building team consensus, supporting theorising, and shaping commissioning briefs. #qmip2025

Michael Larkin also discusses AI in qualitative analysis. Similar to Virginia Braun’s points, "we" are the instrument of analysis. AI simply identifies topics that are spoken about; it is not performing analysis, and we need to resist the idea that AI is doing an analysis #qmip2025

Concluding that the question is more about whether we should use it than whether we can use it.

🌈 Supervising a study on avoided topics in therapy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) individuals.
💬 When developing the study idea, LGBQ participants told us: “what was left unsaid mattered most.”
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