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Carey, Timothy A.; Mansell, Warren

doi:10.1017/s1754470x0999016x

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“…Rather than attending to superficial differences, it will be far more productive to promote common principles of effective service delivery that apply across different contexts (Carey 2018). In fact, it has been suggested that the power and precision of the physical sciences arose because disciplines in the physical sciences focus on invariance or common, underlying properties of apparently different objects and elements (Carey and Mansell 2009). The life sciences, on the other hand, have taken up the study of variability.…”

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Future of Rural, Remote, and very Remote Mental Health

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Gullifer

2020

Handbook of Rural, Remote, and Very Remote Mental Health

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For the effects of rurality to be minimized with regard to the impact of mental health problems in RRvR locations, a number of changes need to occur. While living in nonurban locations certainly has its challenges, it has a number of unique benefits that could be emphasized in order to improve recruitment and retention of a skilled mental health workforce. Lifestyle factors, community involvement, the beauty of the natural environment, and the scope of practice are some of the common features of living and working in RRvR settings that could be promoted to mental health professionals to encourage them to consider a career away from the city. Policy changes also need to occur in a number of different areas. Recruitment and retention problems of medically trained health professionals have been addressed in Australia by successive governments developing and introducing various incentive schemes. Similar schemes could be adopted for the recruitment and retention of a diverse mental health workforce. It is also imperative that policy changes are adopted to address the lack of evaluation of programs and services that occur. Ironically, if policy required that ongoing

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Future of Rural, Remote, and very Remote Mental Health

Carey,

Gullifer

2020

Handbook of Rural, Remote, and Very Remote Mental Health

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“…While standard research, therefore, focuses on the study of variability, PCT is the study of invariance which is more akin to research in the physical sciences. One reason for the power and precision of the physical sciences has been suggested to be the focus on invariance or the common, fundamental, underlying properties of seemingly distinct objects (Carey and Mansell, 2009, p. 128). Adopting this approach, therefore, might assist in improving the rigor and precision of research in the life sciences.…”

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To Mix or Not To Mix? A Meta-Method Approach to Rethinking Evaluation Practices for Improved Effectiveness and Efficiency of Psychological Therapies Illustrated With the Application of Perceptual Control Theory

2019

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Progress in the development of more effective and efficient psychological therapies could be accelerated with innovative and nuanced approaches to research methodology. Therapy development has been dominated by a mono-methodology attitude with randomized controlled trials (RCTs) regarded as a “gold standard” despite the concept of a single methodology being ascribed gold standard status having been called into question. Rather than one particular methodology being considered superior to all others, the gold standard approach should be matching appropriate methodologies to important research questions. The way in which that matching should occur, however, is far from clear. Moving from a mono-methodological approach to mixed-method designs has not been straightforward. The ways in which methods should be mixed, to arrive at robust and persuasive answers to genuine research questions, is not entirely clear. In this paper, we argue that attention to the meta-methods underpinning all research designs will improve research precision and provide greater clarity about the contribution of any particular program of research to scientific progress in that field. From a meta-method perspective, the matter of what changed can be delineated from why or how these changes occurred. Different methods and different types of mixing can be justified for each meta question. A meta-method approach should make explicit the assumptions that guide the development of research designs and also promote the articulation of putative mechanisms that might be relevant. By paying greater attention to assumptions such as how causality occurs, and important mechanisms of change, the mixing of methodologies that are still not mainstream in this area such as routine outcome monitoring and evaluation and functional model building, can occur. By adopting methodologies that focus on learning about a program’s strengths and weaknesses rather than presiding over judgments of whether or not the program is deemed to be effective, we will move much closer to a position of being able to understand what programs under which conditions people find most helpful for their purposes.

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