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In It for The Long Run: Researching Mental Health and Illness

David Carless

Kitrina Douglas

Sport, Mental Illness, and Sociology

ISBN: 978-1-78743-470-7, eISBN: 978-1-78743-469-1

Publication date: 14 December 2018

Abstract

Purpose

In this chapter we share some lessons we have learnt through doing research with – rather than on – people experiencing a range of mental health problems.

Approach

Our work has taken place within social, cultural, economic, and political contexts which create several problems or challenges. Through an extended dialogue, we explore how we have critically responded to each of these challenges across three phases of our projects: accessing and witnessing experiences of mental illness; understanding experiences of mental illness; and communicating mental health research.

Conclusion

Our aim is to stimulate creative responses to the question of how to do and disseminate research that is most likely to be helpful to people experiencing mental health problems.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

We thank all the participants in our research over the past two decades for sharing and entrusting us with stories of their lives, thereby helping us learn new and better ways of doing qualitative research.

Citation

Carless, D. and Douglas, K. (2018), "In It for The Long Run: Researching Mental Health and Illness", Sport, Mental Illness, and Sociology (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 11), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 177-192. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476-285420180000011012

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Emerald Publishing Limited