293 The Professional Counselor | Volume 14, Issue 3 Table 2 Interview Questions Question Number Question Content 1 What is your process for working with emerging adult clients? 1a • Why do you choose to work with this population? 2 What developmental considerations do you make when working with emerging adult clients? 2a • Can you provide an example or case using developmental considerations working with emerging adult clients? 3 To what extent does clients’ “identity exploration” factor into your counseling of emerging adult clients? 4 To what extent does clients’ “sense of possibilities” factor into your counseling of emerging adult clients? 5 To what extent does clients’ “feeling in-between” factor into your counseling of emerging adult clients? 6 To what extent does clients’ “instability” factor into your counseling of emerging adult clients? 7 To what extent does clients’ “self-focus” factor into your counseling of emerging adult clients? 8 When you look back on the process of counseling emerging adults, what other thoughts stand out which we have not discussed about the outcomes of counseling emerging adult clients? 8a • How have those implications affected the outcome of the counseling process with emerging adult clients? 8b • How did you respond to these outcomes as a counselor? To enhance the trustworthiness, credibility, dependability, confirmability, and transferability of the data, we enlisted several procedures during data collection (Morrow, 2005; Prosek & Gibson, 2021). Field notes, researcher observations, and experiences pertaining to each interview were expressed and processed during research team meetings, which assisted in triangulation of data by confirming interpretations of interview data (Anney, 2015). Nice used member checking by sending each participant documents that outlined summaries of the emergent findings, quotes, themes, and data (Flynn & Korcuska, 2018). Of the 11 participants, 10 responded to member checking by confirming the accuracy of the documents to the best of their knowledge or suggesting new thoughts or ideas regarding the documents. To establish the confirmability of findings, analytic memos and a reflexivity journal were used to assist with objectivity in the interpretations during data analysis (Saldaña, 2021). Analytic memos were also kept to record thoughts around the meaning behind participants’ statements. Nice used a reflexivity journal throughout the interviews and data analysis processes and made efforts to bracket assumptions as a professional in the counseling field (Hays & Singh, 2023). The purposive sampling method of clients based on their experiences of counseling emerging adults assisted in establishing transferability of the findings of the study (Anney, 2015). The trustworthiness
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