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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 1 Key concept: systematic case study

From: Appraising psychotherapy case studies in practice-based evidence: introducing Case Study Evaluation-tool (CaSE)

Systematic case study is a systematised alternative to the classical clinical case study. Systematic case studies generally involve a team of researchers, gather data from multiple different sources (questionnaires, observations by the therapist, interviews, statistical findings, etc.) and feature data triangulation processes in order to assess whether the data from different sources converge.