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Summary
Summary
Choosing Methods in Mental Health Research develops a new framework for mental health research. It is concerned with how to choose the most appropriate mental health research method, not only to address a specific question, but to maximize the potential impact on shaping mental health care.
Mike Slade and Stefan Priebe focus attention on the types of audience that the researcher is seeking to influence, the types of evidence each audience accepts as valid, and the relative strengths and limitations of each type of methodology. A range of research methodologies are described and critically appraised, and the use of evidence by different groups is discussed. This produces some important findings about the interplay between research production and consumption, and highlights directions for future mental health research theory and practice.
The findings presented here will be relevant to mental health service users and professionals who use research evidence to inform decision-making. It will also prove an invaluable resource for students and researchers in the field of mental health.
Author Notes
Mike Slade is Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Health Services Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry and a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Rehabilitation, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
Stefan Priebe is Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry at Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London. He has published widely on concepts, therapeutic processes and outcomes in mental health care.
Table of Contents
| ForewordSlade and Priebe |
| Preface |
| Part I Research MethodsSlade, Priebe |
| Who is Research For?Wilson Single Case Experimental DesignsMcCabe |
| Conversation AnalysisHarper |
| Discourse Analysis |
| HenwoodGrounded Theory.WesselyRandomised Controlled TrialsGilbody |
| Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysisJenkins and Meltzer and Brugha and Gupta Surveys |
| Part II Consumers of ResearchWalters and Tylee |
| Influencing Practice at Primary Care Level |
| BurnsInfluencing Community Mental Health Team Practice to Improve Care OutcomesPinfold, Thornicroft |
| Influencing the Public Perception of Mental Illness |
| Petit-ZemanInfluencing the Media |
| Holloway Influencing Policy in the United Kingdom |
| Puschner, Kunze, BeckerInfluencing Policy in Germany |
| Burti Influencing Policy in ItalyHansson |
| Influencing Policy in SwedenLyons, WittInfluencing Policy in the United States |
| Part III Generating High-impact Research |
| Busfield The Evidence Context in Mental Health ResearchBeresford |
| A Service User Perspective on EvidenceBracken, Thomas |
| Postmodern Mental Health Services |
| Priebe, SladeResearch Production and Consumption |
