Discrepant Results in Mental Health Research

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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.

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Discrepant results are the most common results of mental health research, and may even occur multiple times in a single study. But what do discrepant results mean? How are researchers to make sense of them? Do they tell us something important about mental health, and if they do, how would we know? Discrepant Results in Mental Health Research challenges all that we think we know about mental health.

Contenu

• 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

• About the Author

• References