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I examine the research method in child psychotherapy and wish to highlight the essential factors in this research area. There have been significant changes in the current situation of children and the institutions that support children. We need to assert that child psychotherapy is an effective resource for supporting children through research in child psychotherapy. The concept of case study has been widely used as psychotherapy research. In this article, I examine the concept of case study as one of the research methods used in various studies. Case studies are criticized in terms of generality and rigidness. However, sociology and psychology are in a shift to illuminate from a quantitative study to a qualitative one. We will consider a case study to describe subjectivity as one of the scientific studies. However, to verify the study, clinical psychologists need to (1) learn the research method of other fields and (2) use quantitative and/or qualitative instruments outside clinical psychology. Therefore, I introduce a trial of child psychotherapy research in Britain where research began earlier and is more advanced than Japan, and introduce new prospects of the research method in Japan.

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