Discrepant Results in Mental Health Research

What They Mean, Why They Matter, and How They Inform Scientific Practices

Andres de Los Reyes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-768660-7 (ISBN)

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Discrepant Results in Mental Health Research probes the most common outcomes of mental health studies. Discrepant results appear in scores of studies traversing the globe--a literature dating back to the 1950s. This literature reveals that any two studies often differ in their estimates of anything from the prevalence of mental health conditions to the effects of mental health treatments. In fact, researchers often encounter discrepant results among findings made in a single study. Discrepant results factor into what we think we know about how often mental health conditions occur, what causes them, and how to treat them. Yet, researchers do not know what to do with discrepant results when they encounter them. The problem is not with their methods--discrepant results appear even when researchers use high-quality instruments to collect data. The problem lies with how researchers interpret their data, and the decisions they make with those data.

To address this problem, the book reveals a conceptually grounded, evidence-based approach to discrepant results in mental health research. It describes the robust nature of these discrepant results, along with theoretical models for understanding and interpreting them. These models inform sound scientific practices. The book reviews work that has implemented these practices, and it also leverages illustrative case examples to facilitate content mastery. Additionally, it describes future directions in research on discrepant results across several areas of work, including measurement development, intervention science, data analysis, and clinical populations that have received relatively little attention on issues surrounding discrepant results, such as suicide risk and autism.

Andres De Los Reyes is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and Chaired the American Psychological Association's (APA's) Board of Educational Affairs. He received the APA's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, as well as an APA Presidential Citation. He is a Fellow of the APA and Association for Psychological Science, and a Fulbright Scholar.

Preface
Acknowledgements

1. The Errors of Yesterday, and the Dark Matter of Today
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Part I: Describing Discrepant Results
2. The Ubiquity of Discrepant Results in Research
3. Should Discrepant Results Promote a Crisis of Confidence?
4. How Discrepant Results Reveal Blueprints for Discovery
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Part II: Conceptualizing Discrepant Results
5. Structurally Different Informants, Triangulation, and Falsifiability
6. Why Theories about Rater Biases Fail to Explain Discrepant Results
7. The Operations Triad Model
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Part III: Validating Discrepant Results
8. The CONTEXT Validation Paradigm
9. Constructing Measurement Batteries
10. Distinguishing Discrepant Results from Bias and Noise
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Part IV: Project CONTEXT
11. The Operations Triad System and Connections to the History of Science
12. Study Design and Measurement Validation Battery
13. Insights About Data Sources, Validation Testing, and Theory
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Part V: How Discrepant Results Inform Scientific Practices
14. Clinical Utility
15. Meta-Analysis
16. Research, Education, and Training
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Part VI: When Clinic Assessments Produce Discrepant Results
17. The Ubiquity of Discrepant Results in the Clinic
18. The Needs-to-Goals Gap Framework
19. How the Operations Triad System Informs Assessing Clients
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Part VII: Future Directions in Discrepant Results Research
20. Instrumentation
21. Analytic Procedures
22. Clinical Populations
23. Replication and Reproduction
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24. The Power of Discrepant Results?The Dark Matter in Mental Health Research

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Erscheinungsdatum	25.07.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 237 mm
Gewicht	748 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-768660-5 / 0197686605
ISBN-13	978-0-19-768660-7 / 9780197686607
Zustand	Neuware