Heidi M. Levitt, PhD, is a professor in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a past president of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP), a section of Division 5 (Quantitative and Qualitative Methods) of the American Psychological Association (APA). In addition, she has been an associate editor for the journals Psychotherapy Research and Qualitative Psychology. She chaired the development of the SQIP recommendations for reviewing and designing qualitative research (Levitt et al., 2 7) and chaired the development of the inaugural APA journal article reporting standards (JARS) for qualitative, qualitative meta-analytic, and mixed methods research.