Discrepant Results in Mental Health Research

Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Errors of Yesterday, and the Dark Matter of Today ================================================================= Part I: Describing Discrepant Results 2. The Ubiquity of Discrepant Results in Research 3. Should Discrepant Results Promote a Crisis of Confidence? 4. How Discrepant Results Reveal Blueprints for Discovery ================================================================= P art II: Conceptualizing Discrepant Results 5. Structurally Different Informants, Triangulation, and Falsifiability 6. Why Theories about Rater Biases Fail to Explain Discrepant Results 7. The Operations Triad Model ================================================================= Part III: Validating Discrepant Results 8. The CONTEXT Validation Paradigm 9. Constructing Measurement Batteries 10. Distinguishing Discrepant Results from Bias and Noise ================================================================= Part IV: Project CONTEXT 11. The Operations Triad System and Connections to the History of Science 12. Study Design and Measurement Validation Battery 13. Insights About Data Sources, Validation Testing, and Theory ================================================================= Part V: How Discrepant Results Inform Scientific Practices 14. Clinical Utility 15. Meta-Analysis 16. Research, Education, and Training ================================================================= Pa rt VI: When Clinic Assessments Produce Discrepant Results 17. The Ubiquity of Discrepant Results in the Clinic 18. The Needs-to-Goals Gap Framework 19. How the Operations Triad System Informs Assessing Clients ================================================================= Par t VII: Future Directions in Discrepant Results Research 20. Instrumentation 21. Analytic Procedures 22. Clinical Populations 23. Replication and Reproduction ================================================================= 24. The Power of Discrepant Results?The Dark Matter in Mental Health Research About the Author References