Psychology: Clinical- Methods (AJW)



31870655397500An example of a study using INTERVIEWING as part of the research method : Vallentine et al (2010): Psycho-educational group-work for detained offender patients: understanding mental illnessWhat do I need to know before addressing this paper?What is group therapy?What is cognitive behavioural therapy?What is meant by relapse? What are outcome measures?What are the key features of the semi-structured interview?What strengths and weaknesses are there of the semi-structured interview in comparison with other styles of interview and other research methods in general?What is meant by the term content analysis? What are the strengths and weaknesses of content analysis as a method of analysing qualitative data?You have watched the film about Broadmoor, now imagine you are making an additional scene for the film where you are interviewing Victoria Vallentine about her work published in 2010. You will inevitably ask questions about her aim, methods, findings and conclusions of her study. Script your work carefully in advance of filming – you don’t have to stick rigidly to the script when filming but the script will provide evidence for the work that you have completed for this assessment. Make sure that when “Vallentine” speaks she explains herself fully and uses terms that her audience would understand. Complete the true and false quiz; first of all do this individually; then in pairs check your answers against each other and discuss, you can change your answers if you want to.Now, get together with another pair and share your answers; as a group work out how you would extend/elaborate your points to turn facts into strengths and/or weaknesses of the study. Each statement has been selected to provide a “springboard” to help you make some evaluation points; make well developed chains of reason on white paper with black pen for weaknesses and yellow paper for strengths. Once you have considered all of the statements, see whether you can come up with two more strengths and two more weaknesses of your own by thinking about the pros and cons of semi-structured interviews and making them relevant to this study; think “specific not generic” will score more points!TRUEFALSEThere were 131 Pps in this studyThe researchers used content analysis to analyse the qualitative dataThe researchers also used questionnaires to gather data Offenders did not like the group sessionsThe study did not collect any quantitative dataThe researchers measured relapse by looking at readmission ratesThe sample included people convicted of homicide, violence, sexual offence, arson and kidnap84% of Pps were diagnosed using the DSM IV(TR) with paranoid schizophreniaThere were 10 non-completers21 interviews were conductedThe SCQ had 30 items to assess self-esteem amongst other thingsThe CORE(OM) covered 6 areasInterviews were conducted by Victoria Vallentine, the lead researcherGroups lasted for 50 sessionsSessions included an assessment phase where they checked offenders understanding of what had been coveredGroup size was 4-6 offenders per groupThe groups were run by social workersInter-rater reliability was established for the emergent themes in the semi-structured interview data, using the statistic known as Cohen’s Kappa; the percentage was 60%Vallentine compared the “progress” of the Pps who completed the group with a control group of offenders in a different ward who had not been offered the psychoeducation sessions ................
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