Overview
- Examines innovative approaches to qualitative methods in mental health research and practice
- Describes the creation and implementation of custom-designed data collection methods and analysis
- Reflects diverse cultural contexts and geographical locations, ranging in their methodology from
- individual case studies to community-based interventions
- Explores ways to understand the relationship between experience and discourse
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
This book examines innovative approaches to the use of qualitative methods in mental health research. It describes the development and use of methods of data collection and analysis designed. These methods address contemporary and interdisciplinary research questions, such as how to access the voices of vulnerable populations, understand the relationship between experience and discourse, and identify processes and patterns that characterize institutional practices. The book offers insight into projects that reflect various cultural contexts and geographical locations as well as involve diverse research teams, ranging in their methodology from individual case studies to community-based interventions.
Chapters address how research method selection needs to be tailored to specific contexts within which studies are carried out and how synthesizing diverse perspectives of different disciplines – such as psychology, sociology, linguistics, history, and art – make a research endeavor more fruitful. The book offers a clear framework in which to assess the research presented in the book as well as map future directions for qualitative methodology in mental health research.Key areas of coverage include projects that describe research with:
• Individuals confronted with critical life events.
• Former psychiatric patients.
• Individual and couple psychotherapy clients.
• Clients in a forensic setting.
• Persons affected by psychosis.
• Dementia patients.
• People living with cancer.
• Health care professionals.
Chapter 10, “Engraved in the Body: Ways of Reading Finnish People’s Memories of Mental Hospitals” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Collaborative research and mental health care
- Constructive-interpretative methodology
- Culture and qualitative health research
- Data collection and mental health research
- Discourse analysis and mental health research
- Dual focus methodology, cancer and mental health
- Global challenges and mental health
- Interpersonal process recall and psychotherapy
- Memory and mental hospitals
- Mental health and qualitative research
- Mental resilience and health literacy
- Organization perspectives and mental health
- Psychotherapy and metasynthesis
- Pyschosocial perspectives in mental health
- Qualitative methodologies, mental health research
- Quality of life and mental health
- Schizophrenia and mental health research
- Subjectivity and mental health care
- Trust and psychotherapy
- Vulnerable populations and mental health research
Table of contents (12 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Illustrating Innovation in Qualitative Mental Health Research
-
Front Matter
-
-
Applying Qualitative Methods in Collaborative Research Projects
-
Front Matter
-
-
Back Matter
Reviews
“This diversity of perspectives is well represented in the various chapters of the book. … the chapters do present–in various degrees–the epistemological and procedural founding of the actual qualitative methodology applied in each particular study. … from the methods perspective the prospective reader can expect to be introduced to a large variety of qualitative approaches. … this book should be enjoyed with time and with respect for the rich variety … .” (Jarl Wahlström, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, December 1, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maria Borcsa is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Applied Sciences in Nordhausen (UASN), Germany, licensed psychological psychotherapist (CBT), family therapist, trainer and supervisor and founding member of the Institute of Social Medicine, Rehabilitation Sciences and Healthcare Research at UASN. She has published research papers, books and book chapters in the domain of family therapy and systemic practice in German, French, Italian and Greek. She has been board member of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA) (2007-2016) and President of EFTA from 2013 to 2016.
Carla Willig is Professor of Psychology at City, University of London, UK. She is also a Chartered Health Psychologist and a registered Counselling Psychologist in private practice. A major theme in her work to date has been a concern with research methodology. She has published empirical and theoretical papers and book chapters concerned with epistemological and methodological questions. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Health Psychology, a member of the editorial board of Qualitative Research in Psychology, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Psychological Therapies.
Carla Willig is Professor of Psychology at City, University of London, UK. She is also a Chartered Health Psychologist and a registered Counselling Psychologist in private practice. A major theme in her work to date has been a concern with research methodology. She has published empirical and theoretical papers and book chapters concerned with epistemological and methodological questions. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Health Psychology, a member of the editorial board of Qualitative Research in Psychology, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Psychological Therapies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health
Book Subtitle: Innovative and Collaborative Approaches
Editors: Maria Borcsa, Carla Willig
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65331-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65330-9Published: 01 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65333-0Published: 02 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65331-6Published: 30 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 265
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Family, Public Health