A new methodology linking interactional and experiential approaches, and involving young people as co-analysts of mental health encounters.

一种将互动方法和体验方法联系起来的新方法，并让年轻人作为心理健康遭遇的共同分析者。

• 批准号: MR/X003108/1
• 负责人: Michael Larkin
• 金额: $ 38.25万
• 依托单位: Aston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FX003108%2F1
• 关键词: new; methodology; linking; interactional; experiential

Imagine that you are a researcher working on youth mental health. You know that adolescence and early adulthood are a critical period for intervention to prevent mental health problems continuing into adulthood. You want to understand why a substantial number of young people don't engage with, or don't benefit from, mental health interventions and services. You might want to use 'qualitative' methods, because they are often better suited to capturing meaning, context and complexity. If you were curious about how interactions with services can sometimes go wrong for young people, this would be a good approach. You could record what happens when young people do meet with professionals. You could analyse those conversations using an 'interactional' method. This focuses on how a particular social interaction unfolds - who says what, and where does that lead? But you would be lacking important contextual information about the meetings you recorded. For example, you wouldn't know how these events fitted into the broader story of the young person's attempts to get help, or how the young person felt about the event that you had just observed. You could interview the young person instead, to find out about this context, and how they were feeling about their attempts to get help - what was it like for them? You could analyse these interviews using a 'phenomenological' method. This focuses on how people make sense of their experiences. But then you wouldn't be able to be very precise about what professionals should do differently, because you hadn't observed it. There are two important and new features to the methodology which we propose to develop in this project. The first of those features is that we will combine these the approaches above, in order to show how a more powerful and insightful analysis of young people's experiences can be developed when we examine both what happens to young people when they seek help, and what they think and feel about that, in the context of their mental health needs. This may seem obvious, but these two methods are rarely - if ever - combined, and there is no methodological framework available for researchers to help them to think about how to combine them. We will do this, and then show how it can be done by others.The second feature of our proposed new methodology is equally important. If you were a researcher preparing a new project, we hope that you would also be thinking about how to involve young people in planning, conducting, evaluating and sharing that project. You would find that there is plentiful guidance available about the general principles underlying this kind of collaboration. But there is no guidance (and there are very few published examples) which would help you to involve young people in analysing and interpreting data. This is the stage where researchers decide what they have found, and what it means, so it is very important.We have found in our previous work, talking with young people about video data, that with appropriate preparation and support, young people will contribute very important analytic insights. We have shown already that the principles of this co-analysis are acceptable to young people, feasible for researchers, and produce valuable research. We want to expand on this and develop it, to meet the needs of the youth mental health research community. By bringing other data sources (interviews) into the process, and showing how young people can engage with more than one form of analysis (phenomenological and interactional), we will develop a methodology that other researchers can use, in order that they can also co-analyse data with young people, and benefit from young people's expertise. These methodological developments will be transformative for the field of youth mental health research, enabling qualitative researchers to capture a much fuller picture of young people's experiences, and to work much more equitably alongside young people.

想象一下，你是一名研究青少年心理健康的研究人员。你知道，青春期和成年早期是进行干预以防止心理健康问题持续到成年的关键时期。你想了解为什么大量的年轻人不参与，或不受益于，心理健康干预和服务。你可能想使用“定性”方法，因为它们通常更适合捕捉意义、背景和复杂性。如果你对年轻人与服务的互动有时会出错感到好奇，这将是一个很好的方法。你可以记录下年轻人与专业人士见面时发生的事情。你可以用一种“询问”的方法来分析这些对话。这集中在一个特定的社会互动是如何展开的-谁说什么，这会导致什么？但是你会缺少关于你记录的会议的重要上下文信息。例如，您不知道这些事件如何融入年轻人寻求帮助的更广泛故事，或者年轻人对您刚刚观察到的事件有何感受。相反，你可以采访年轻人，了解这种情况，以及他们对寻求帮助的感受--他们是什么感觉？你可以用“现象学”的方法来分析这些访谈。这集中在人们如何理解他们的经历。但是你不能非常精确地知道专业人士应该做什么不同的事情，因为你没有观察到它。我们建议在这个项目中开发的方法有两个重要的新特征。第一个特点是，我们将联合收割机与上述方法相结合，以表明当我们研究年轻人寻求帮助时会发生什么，以及他们在心理健康需求方面对此的想法和感受时，如何对年轻人的经历进行更有力和更有见地的分析。这似乎是显而易见的，但这两种方法很少--如果有的话--结合起来，也没有方法论框架可供研究人员帮助他们思考如何将它们联合收割机结合起来。我们将做到这一点，然后展示其他人如何做到这一点。我们提出的新方法的第二个特点同样重要。如果你是一个研究人员准备一个新的项目，我们希望你也会考虑如何让年轻人参与规划，执行，评估和分享该项目。你会发现，关于这种协作的一般原则，有大量的指导。但是，没有任何指导（也很少有公开的例子）可以帮助你让年轻人参与分析和解释数据。这是研究人员决定他们发现了什么，以及它意味着什么的阶段，所以这是非常重要的。我们在之前的工作中发现，与年轻人谈论视频数据，通过适当的准备和支持，年轻人将贡献非常重要的分析见解。我们已经证明，这种共同分析的原则是年轻人可以接受的，对研究人员来说是可行的，并产生有价值的研究。我们希望扩大这一点，并发展它，以满足青年心理健康研究社区的需求。通过将其他数据来源（访谈）纳入这一过程，并展示年轻人如何参与多种形式的分析（现象学和互动），我们将开发一种其他研究人员可以使用的方法，以便他们也可以与年轻人共同分析数据，并从年轻人的专业知识中受益。这些方法的发展将是青年心理健康研究领域的变革，使定性研究人员能够更全面地了解年轻人的经历，并更公平地与年轻人一起工作。