| Sumario: | Part of a special section on qualitative research. A study was conducted to examine couple and therapist perspectives concerning the use and value of reflecting team practice. Postsession ethnographic interviews from 11 couples and 5 therapists were analyzed for the frequency of themes in seven categories that emerged from a previous ethnographic study of reflecting teams by Sells et al. that appears in this issue. Findings revealed that quantitative numerical data and qualitative narrative data can examine the same phenomenon from multiple perspectives and permit greater accuracy and stability in study findings. Inductive and deductive methods of inquiry are employed to contrast ethnographic content analysis with conventional modes of quantitative analysis in order to demonstrate the former's utility and rationale for discovering emergent patterns, themes, emphases, and process.
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