Research Methods in Psychiatry (third edition)
Edited by
Chris Freeman and Peter Tyrer
This updated
comprehensive guide to psychiatric research methods takes the
reader from getting started in research through to publishing a
paper, with advice on avoiding common pitfalls along the way.
Systematic analysis and meta-analysis, epidemiology, qualitative
research, and research focused on a few patients are discussed,
together with the principles of validity and reliability in the
assessment of psychological variables and statistical aspects of
the design and analysis of clinical trials. Five completely new
chapters cover topics such as research from the trainee’s
perspective and research in learning disability and child and
adolescent psychiatry.
A key text for
psychiatric trainees embarking on research projects, this book will
also be useful to psychiatrists supervising research projects, and
those in the social sciences with an interest in carrying out
research or critically reviewing the published evidence.
- Setting up a research
project.
- How to make a comprehensive
review of the literature.
- Choosing a rating scale.
- Getting research
published.
*
Highly Commended for the
Mental Health prize of the 2007 BMA Medical Book
Competition.*
The chapter on rating scales (in Part
III, chapter 11) from this book has also been published as a
separate book (with additional foreword and introduction):
Rating Scales
in Psychiatry
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"This book is excellent. There is
often a criticism of the lack of research (at junior level); this
book encourages research by demystifying it and encouraging
interest and enthusiasm for this. ...This book will become the
bible of trainees! It would also make a useful contribution to
revision for professional exams."
2007 BMA Medical Book
Competition Programme and Award Winners
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"Will be helpful to psychiatry
trainees. Although it is written from the perspective of
investigators in the UK, nearly all of the book will be relevant to
researchers in the United States."
Journal of Clinical
Psychiatry
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"There are many problems that trainees
cite as reasons for not getting involved in research. This book
seems to provide solutions to many of those problems and supplies
further reasons for trainees to become involved in research. It
will be of immense help to any trainee about to embark on research
in psychiatry."
The British Journal of
Psychiatry
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Contents
Part I:
General considerations
1. Getting started in
research - Chris Freeman and Peter Tyrer
2. Psychiatric
research from the trainee’s perspective - Neil Mayfield and Rebecca Tipper
3. Writing up
research - Peter Tyrer and Chris
Freeman
Part II: Different types of
research
4. Systematic
research and meta-analysis - Matthew
Hotopf
5. Epidemiology -
Mike Crawford
6. Qualitative
research methods in psychiatry - Deborah
Rutter
7. Research with
single or few patients - David F.
Peck
Part III: Tools
8. Statistical
aspects of clinical trials in psychiatry - Tony
Johnson
9. Using computers in
research - Chris Freeman, Patricia Casey, Ula Nur and Peter
Tyrer
10. Principles of
psychological assessment - Simon Gilbody,
Stephen Morley and Philip Snaith
11. Rating scales in psychiatry - Peter Tyrer and Caroline
Methuen
Part IV: Special areas of research
12. Research in child
and adolescent psychiatry - AtifRahman and
Richard Harrington
13. Research in the
psychiatry of learning disability - Walter
Muir and SusieGibbs
14. Research in
psychotherapy - Chris Freeman and Yvonne
Edmonstone
15. Historical
research - G. E. Berrios