Abstract
This editorial to the Special Issue on Qualitative Inquiry in Mental Health Research with Young People provides an overview of the importance of qualitative inquiry to the field of child and youth mental health. The issue highlights research using qualitative methods to depict the lived experiences and contribution of young people in areas that reflect important mental health concerns, ranging from anxiety, non-suicidal self-injury, positive resilience in young people in times of crisis, and drug and alcohol treatment.
Highlights
This Special Issue aims to discuss new knowledge and cutting-edge developments in qualitative mental health research with young people through selected works, each making an important contribution to the extant knowledge base
Public Health 2021, 18, 6660 concerns, ranging from non-suicidal self-injury, positive resilience in young people in times of crisis, and drug and alcohol treatment. The contributors to this Special Issue drew from a range of methodological perspectives and employed a variety of qualitative data collection methods, including arts-based methods, such as body mapping, photovoice and ecomaps, secondary documents, in-depth interviews, participant observation and journaling
The methodological article by Macken and her colleagues [11] explores the utility of using body mapping, an arts-based method, in the drug and alcohol treatment sector in Sydney, Australia, to explore young people’s strengths and support networks
Summary
Qualitative methods provide richly textured, thick description to supplement the breadth of understanding afforded by quantitative methods, elicit the perspectives and lived experience of research participants, explore issues that have not been well studied, develop conceptual theories or test hypotheses, or examine a phenomenon or intervention. This Special Issue aims to discuss new knowledge and cutting-edge developments in qualitative mental health research with young people through selected works, each making an important contribution to the extant knowledge base.
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