Mark Rapley is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology. A graduate of the then NELP MSc in Clinical Psychology, he worked as a clinical psychologist in NHS learning disability services, and, until recently, as an academic and consultant to intellectual disability services in Western Australia.
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PART ONE: THEORY Introduction Where Has QOL Come from? A Life of Quality Just What Does QOL Mean? Whose Quality of Life Is It Anyway? Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches PART TWO: PRACTICE Researching QOL as Cultural Object QOL in Health and Social Care Research QOL Research with Special Populations Researching QOL as a Psychological Object Should We `Hang Up Quality of Life as a Hopeless Term'?
'Quality of Life Research provides a superb summary of a complex and fragmented field of social science research. Mark Rapley has achieved a remarkable command of the topic, and explores the research findings in a clear, critical and comprehensive study' - Bryan Turner, University of Cambridge '[Quality of Life Research] is a major achievement, pulling together a very wide range of material and offering a coherent and cogent critique' - Mike Bury, Royal Holloway, University of London