scholarly journals One More Step in Childhood Research Discovery. A Review of Doing Mental Health Research with Children and Adolescents. A Guide to Qualitative Methods

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Savinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Process Step ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Ethical And Legal Issues

In “Doing mental health research with children and adolescents. A Guide to qualitative Methods” (2014), Michell O’Really and Nicola Parker present a highly practical guide to conduct qualitative research with children what extremely easy to follow. The authors show a research process step-by-step with special attention to communicative, ethical and legal issues. The guide is provided by overview of the theories, the importance of research for evidence construction, and most popular qualitative data collection and analysis techniques. In the last chapter, authors discover the successful practice of knowledge dissemination.

Valuing the voice of lived experience of eating disorders in the research process: Benefits and considerations

2021 ◽  
pp. 000486742199879
Author(s):  
Selma Musić ◽  
Rosiel Elwyn ◽  
Grace Fountas ◽  
Inge Gnatt ◽  
Zoe M Jenkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Direct Involvement ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Process Benefits

Although the inclusion of individuals with lived experience is encouraged within the research process, there remains inconsistent direct involvement in many mental health fields. Within the eating disorders field specifically, there is a very strong and increasing presence of lived experience advocacy. However, due to a number of potential challenges, research undertaken in consultation or in collaboration with individuals with lived experience of an eating disorder is scarce. This paper describes the significant benefits of the inclusion of individuals with lived experience in research. The specific challenges and barriers faced in eating disorders research are also outlined. It is concluded that in addition to existing guidelines on working with lived experience collaborators in mental health research, more specific procedures are required when working with those with eating disorders.

scholarly journals Virtual World Café Method for Identifying Mental Health Research Priorities: Methodological Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Michelle Banfield ◽  
Amelia Gulliver ◽  
Alyssa R. Morse
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Target Number ◽  
Single Room

People with lived experience of mental health problems as both consumers and carers can bring significant expertise to the research process. However, the methods used to gather this information and their subsequent results can vary markedly. This paper describes the methods for two virtual World Cafés held to gather data on consumer and carer priorities for mental health research. Several methodological processes and challenges arose during data collection, including the achieved recruitment for each group (n = 4, n = 7) falling significantly short of the target number of 20 participants per group. This led to departures from planned methods (i.e., the use of a single ‘room’, rather than multiple breakout rooms). Despite this, the participants in the virtual World Cafés were able to generate over 200 ideas for research priorities, but not identify agreed-upon priorities. Virtual World Cafés can quickly generate a significant volume of data; however, they may not be as effective at generating consensus.

scholarly journals Overcoming “You Can Ask My Mom”: Clinical Arts-Based Perspectives to Include Children Under 12 in Mental Health Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692095895
Author(s):  
Prudence Caldairou-Bessette ◽  
Lucie Nadeau ◽  
Claudia Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Children’S Voices

As research with children (rather than research on children) gains popularity and researchers adapt methods to include children’s voices, continual reflection on the research methods themselves is needed. In this article, we explore the relevance of playing and drawing in qualitative research interviews to include and represent the voice of children under 12 years of age, particularly in the field of mental health research. We reflect on the conception of children’s voice in research and argue for an understanding of voice that goes beyond verbal language. We suggest a combination of perspectives from arts-based research and clinical interview practice to support our understanding of children’s voice in research. As an illustration, we draw on an example taken from a large research project in Youth Mental Health Collaborative Care during which 23 children under the age of 12 were interviewed using a talk-play-draw model. We discuss the multidimensional aspect of children’s voices and the ethical value of arts and play in research interviews. We highlight the importance of researchers’ ethical reflexivity and creative participation in their quest to understand children’s voices. While doing so, we emphasize the responsibility of researchers to interpret, translate and represent as justly as possible a multi-layered, complex and often disorganized voice into a form that is accessible to the linear world of academic research. Given that it is perhaps inevitable that researchers use their own voice in this process, we argue that in conducting research with children, we need to engage both the children as participants and the researchers as advocates for children’s perspectives.

scholarly journals When Madness Meets Madness: Insider Reflections on Doing Mental Health Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 160940691983535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Involuntary Hospitalization ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Narrative Framework ◽  
Psychiatric Survivors ◽  
Familial Expectations

Insider–outsider relations in qualitative research have been heavily studied. Yet there is a dearth in the literature exploring how people who have experienced madness produce knowledge and overcome trying circumstances when they do qualitative mental health research with other survivors. This article fills this gap through a critical reflection on my experiences with psychosis and involuntary hospitalization and how they shaped dialogue with my participants. Situated within a narrative framework of inquiry, I reveal how self-disclosure and critical forms of relationality during interviews with 10 psychiatric survivors produced a survivor-centered knowledge that nuances biomedical understandings of mental illness and the mental health system. Practices of self-disclosure revealed how survivors and I had to navigate familial expectations as we recovered and tried to regain a sense of identity. Doing insider research also helped me overcome the periods of embarrassment and stigma in my psychosis, as I learned through critical dialogue how traumatic events can provide unique avenues for intense self-reflection and the development of greater empathy for mental health survivors. I also discuss some of the ethical concerns and limitations of having an insider status in qualitative mental health research, and how self-disclosure may present certain epistemological challenges in the research process.

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