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Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 34, No. 2, 185-218 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/136346159703400202

Recontextualizing Psychiatry: Toward Ecologically Valid Mental Health Research

Marten W. Devries

Maastricht University

A new research strategy is proposed that supplements current research approaches by measuring a person's activity and mental state in daily life settings, thereby taken a step toward ecologically validating diagnosis. This approach is embedded in a multi-method, multi-level design that cascades from ethnography and population and small group statistics to the indepth, time sampling of individuals. In the model, methods such as community surveys, in-care registration statistics, social network analysis, snowball sampling of hidden populations and focus groups of specific problems are linked. The intensive study of the person with the Experience Sampling Method stands central in the model and is illustrated in detail. This design attempts to adjust shortcomings in current research by providing supplementary information at a variety of qualitative and quantitative levels for use in cross-cultural research, service planning and personalized treatment.

Key Words: ecological psychiatry • Experience Sampling Method


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