Co-produced and participatory visual methods in cultural and global mental health research
Erminia Colucci

During this workshop, the facilitator will share learnings from her collaborative co-produced and participatory visual mental health/suicide research projects using a range of techniques with people from migrant and refugee backgrounds and from Low and middle income countries. Participants will then work in small groups to produce a Synopsys for their own co-produced or participatory video.

Conversation analysis in the study of a grieving family and couple therapy
Bernadetta Janusz & Anssi Peräkylä

The workshop will introduce the participants to conversation analytical method of analyzing therapeutic interaction, with particular focus on work with grieving families. The workshop starts with a short lecture on conversation analysis (CA) as a method of investigating human interactions in informal and professional settings. In particular, the lecture will focus on conversation analytical research of psychotherapeutic interaction. The lecture will show how sequential relations between utterances enable a process of transformation of experience.  The workshop shows how the utterance-by-utterance transformation contributes to process of change in a more macroscopic time, spanning over the continuum of psychotherapeutic sessions.

After the short lecture, the workshop will engage in the analysis of video recorded couple therapy sessions. The therapy processes that we will analyze have to do with complicated grief including ambiguous loss and prolonged grief disorder. Taking up the concepts introduced in the lecture, the joint data analysis focusses on the ways in which the participants’ choices of words (pronouns, nouns, or proper names) whereby they refer to the deceased child change over the course of the therapy. Likewise, we will examine how the descriptions of clients' emotional experience as well as ways of allocating responsibility get transformed. We will examine these transformations  both in the sequential time (spanning across the adjacent utterances of the spouses and the therapist in single sessions) and in the therapy-processual time (spanning across the therapy sessions).

The workshop is meant for researchers and clinicians interested in grieving processes and/or conversation analytical method. After the workshop, the participants have basic understanding of the focus of data-analysis is CA, and of the methods of grieving therapy.

Teamwork in Qualitative Research: learning from the South Asia Self-harm project (SASHI)
Anne Krayer

Projects with collaborators from different countries are undertaken to address global health problems. The value of qualitative research in this context is slowly recognised, but there are challenges when working across countries, cultures, and spaces. Qualitative research that is culturally sensitive and focuses on the perspectives of people within their local contexts is needed, this includes not, only recruitment of participants and data collection, but also mindful data analysis.

The aim of this workshop it to explore issues when conducting qualitative research in low- and middle-income countries on topics that may be taboo or stigmatised, such as self-harm and mental health. As part of the workshop, we will be sharing experiences and learning from our project, the South Asia Self Harm Initiative (SASHI). This will cover a range of issues such as strategies for collaborative research processes (including data collection and analysis) and sharing of knowledge. We will look at practical and methodological challenges. Some of the topics will be explored in more detail through various activities and discussions. Participants’ questions and experiences will be important elements feeding into the interactive part of the workshop. We will jointly formulate suggestions for good practice. The workshop will be of relevance not only to people working across countries but also people conducting research across different teams.

Readings
1. Milford, C., Kriel, Y., Njau, I. et al. (2017) Teamwork in qualitative research: descriptions of a multi-country team approach. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 16(1) ttps://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917727189
2. Mulvihill, T.M. & Swaminathan, R. (2022) Collaborative Qualitative Research. New York: Guilford Press.

Experience mapping in qualitative research: discovering embodied and embedded experiences in the lived space 
Viola Sallay & Tamás Martos

Lived experiences are deeply rooted in our bodies and the physical spaces that are significant to us: they are embodied within us and embedded in our environment. Every success, crisis, joyful moment, sad moment, and moment of connection or despair leaves an imprint that lasts for a significant amount of time. Embodied and embedded experiences encapsulate the complexity of a person’s positive and negative emotions, self-regulation, and relationship processes. Recognizing the importance of understanding these complex experiences, we have developed the Emotional Map of the Home interview procedure, which allows us to delve into the self-regulation processes of family members within their own homes (Sallay et al., 2019). Building upon the foundations of systemic thinking and environmental psychology, we have further advanced the concept of experience mapping.
Our workshop introduces the experiMAP procedures, which utilize experience mapping to assess subjective, ecologically embedded experiences. By employing experiMAP, we gain insights into individuals' emotions, emotion-laden behaviors, and relational processes within specific places. Whether it be their home, workplace, or other significant life spaces, through an experiMAP-based assessment, we can evoke emotionally significant experiences through this assessment. During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to:
(1) Acquire knowledge about the scientific background behind the qualitative interview methods based on experiMAP.
(2) Engage in firsthand experience with the experiMAP-based interview protocol, as it is employed in qualitative research.
(3) Explore real-life study examples and gain practical information on applying experiMAP-based procedures.
(4) Develop their research ideas using the experiMAP approach.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have a solid understanding of the theoretical underpinnings, practical implementation, and potential research applications of experiMAP.

Suggested reading
Sallay, V., Martos, T., Chatfield, S. L., & Dúll, A. (2019). Strategies of Dyadic coping and self-regulation in the family homes of chronically ill persons: a qualitative research study using the emotional map of the home interview method. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 403. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00403

How to analyze psychotherapeutic training processes with (critical) discursive research methodologies 
Eleftheria Tseliou

This workshop aims to introduce participants to (critical) discursive research methodologies for the study of training processes in psychotherapy research, focusing on the methodology of (critical) discursive psychology (DP). DP is a discourse analysis approach, closely affiliated with conversation analysis. DP considers all phenomena, including the psychological ones, as situated within discursive practices and assigns language-use a constitutive role with regard to such phenomena. DP suggests specific ways for the analysis of discursive practices, like psychotherapeutic training, which allow for an in situ, sequential analysis of naturally occurring dialogues between participants in such dialogues. Critical DP further takes into consideration the contextual, historical and ideological processes constructing phenomena, like wider ideological dilemmas such as the one about knowledge and expertise vs. democratic principles, which inform the institutionally constructed asymmetry between trainers and trainees. In this workshop, I will first introduce participants to the basic premises of discursive psychology and critical discursive psychology as well as to their key steps and tools regarding analysis. I will then invite participants to experiment with analysis of extracts of transcribed, live conversations between trainers and trainees, by drawing from a discursive psychology study focusing on the analysis of the negotiation of authority within systemic psychotherapeutic training. Overall, participants will have the chance both to familiarize themselves with discursive and critical discursive psychology but also with their application to the study of processes, like psychotherapeutic training processes.