Research Methods for Clinical and Health Psychology

David F. Marks is a psychologist specializing in Health Psychology, Mental Imagery and Consciousness research. After completing my first degree in psychology I trained and practiced clinically as an audiological scientist (testing and rehabilitating people with hearing and balance difficulties), before moving back into psychology to undertake a PhD. After a brief period as a non-clinical scientist at the MRC Unit in Numan Movement and Balance (National Hospital for Neurology, Queen Square, London). I became a lecturer and then senior lecturer in Psychology as Applied to Medicine at University College London. Returning to my home town of Southampton, I was appointed a Reader and then Professor of Health Psychology.I try to warn people that I have great difficulty recognising faces due to developmental prosopagnosia or ′face-blindness′, which neuroscientists are now discovering is more common than was previously thought, affecting about 1 person in 50 (https://www.faceblind.org/people/yardley08jpsychosomres.pdf). The main effect of this is to make me appear very rude when I fail to recognise people I have met, so please say Hello when you meet me - I will remember you and our previous meeting, just not your face!

′The books gives a detailed treatment of a range of important methods. It will strike a chord with applied psychologists in particular - but will also be of interest to healthcare professionals generallyIf you are teaching postgraduate research methods courses, including those aimed at a mixture of psychologists and other health professionals, this book is worth considering as a core text′- John Hegarty, THES′Most texts on research methods focus either on qualitative approaches or on quantitative approaches. A unique feature of this book is that the editors and authors are experts on both qualitative and quantitative methods, and that these two approaches to research in clinical and health psychology are given equal weight. The philosophy that guides this book is that different methods have different advantages and are used for different purposes, but that the understanding of substantive research issues such as medication adherence can benefit from the use of multiple methods. The methods are described in sufficient detail that readers can learn how to apply them without needing to consult other sources′-Stephen Sutton, University of Cambridge

• Introduction to Research Methods in Clinical and Health Psychology - Lucy Yardley and David F MarksGetting Started - Nichola Rumsey and David F MarksThe Practicalities of Doing ResearchQualitative Data Collection - Sue Wilkinson, H[ac]el[gr]ene Joffe and Lucy YardleyInterviews and Focus GroupsContent and Thematic Analysis - H[ac]el[gr]ene Joffe and Lucy YardleyQualitative Analysis of Experience - Kerry Chamberlain, Paul Camic and Lucy YardleyGrounded Theory and Case StudiesQualitative Analysis of Talk and Text - Lucy Yardley and Michael MurrayDiscourse and Narrative AnalysisObservation and Action Research - Claire Ballinger, Lucy Yardley and Sheila PayneQuestionnaires and Surveys - David F MarksAnalysis of Questionnaire and Survey Data - David Clark-Carter and David F MarksIntervention Studies - David Clark-Carter and David F MarksDesign and AnalysisSynthesising Evidence - David F Marks and Catherine Marie SykesSystematic Reviews, Meta-Analysis and Preference Analysis