Researching Persons with Mental Illness / Edition 1

by Rosalind J. Dworkin

Overview

Can the mentally ill be interviewed? What kind of reliability can be expected in their responses? What about the ethics of informed consent? Although standard social science methodologies have been used successfully to study mental health, researching issues with mentally ill individuals introduces unique theoretical and methodological issues.

Focusing on the study of mentally ill adults at the individual level of analysis, this book explores such topics as: how theories of human behaviour that have been developed for a general population may have limited applicability to the population under study; how symptoms are defined and measured; ways to plan and implement research; uses of alternative data sources such as clinical

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803936041
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/06/1992
Series:	Applied Social Research Methods , #30
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	0.35(w) x 5.50(h) x 8.50(d)

Table of Contents

Who are the Mentally Ill?
Applying Theory to the Study of Mentally Ill Persons
Diagnosis and Other Measurements of Illness
Special Problems in Design
Mentally Ill Persons as Respondents
Alternative Data Sources
Research in a Multidisciplinary Milieu