Main description:

Experience Sampling in Mental Health Research provides comprehensive and user-friendly guidance on when and how to apply this methodology in the assessment of clinical populations.

Divided into three sections, the book offers step-by-step instruction on how to design, develop and implement an ESM study, as well as advice on how this approach might be adapted for common mental health difficulties. With an eye to the future of this type of research, the contributors also consider how ESM might be adapted for use as a form of clinical assessment and intervention.

Experience Sampling in Mental Health Research combines the knowledge and expertise of leading international experts in the field, and will be helpful for students, researchers and clinicians wishing to start or develop their understanding of this methodology.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Why the experience sampling method?

Author(s): Jasper Palmier-Claus, Gill Haddock & Fillippo Varese

Chapter 2. Designing and conducting an experience sampling study: Where to start?

Author(s): Filippo Varese, Gill Haddock & Jasper Palmier-Claus

Chapter 3. The analysis of experience sampling data

Author(s): Lesley-Anne Carter & Richard Emsley,

Section 2: Experience sampling research for specific mental health difficulties

Chapter 4. Experience sampling in the study of psychosis.

Author(s): David Kimhy & Julia Vakhrusheva.

Chapter 5. Experience sampling in the study of autism spectrum disorders.

Author(s): Dougal Hare, Yu-Wei Chen

Chapter 6. Experience sampling in the study of sleep and wakefulness.

Author(s): Lee Mulligan, Gill Haddock, Donna Littlewood & Simon Kyle.

Chapter 7. Experience sampling in the study of dyads and family dynamics.

Author(s): Debora Vasconcelos e Sa, Samantha Hartley, Christine Barrowclough.

Chapter 8. Experience sampling in the study of self-harm.

Author(s): Dr Daniel Pratt, Dr Peter Taylor.

Section 3: Experiences sampling as an applied clinical tool.

Chapter 9. Emerging applications of prediction in experience sampling.

Author(s): Colin Depp, Christopher N. Kaufmann, Eric Granholm & Wesley Thompson

Chapter 10. The development of ecological momentary interventions.

Author(s): Henrietta Steinhart, Prof Inez Myin-Germeys, Dr Uli Reininghaus.

Chapter 11. Mobile cognitive testing using experience sampling.

Author(s): Prof Joel Swendsen, Dr Pierre Schweitzer, Dr, Raeanne C. Moore