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Melissa De Smet
@melissadesmet.bsky.social
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I'm an assistant professor in qualitative research. I aim for meaningful idiographic assessment and personalized care by centralizing patients' experiences. Special interests: Youth mental health. Depression. ESM. Grounded theory. Mixed methods. Art.
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Our mixed methods contribution to enhance the validity of idiographic networks based on ESM is now published!

Open access 👇🏼

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Adding Meaning and Context to Nodes and Edges: A Mixed Methods Approach to Enhance the Validity of Idiographic Networks - Cognitive Therapy and Research
Background Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) are increasingly used to derive idiographic networks, which promise more personalized interventions. Using the most frequently used network approach (VAR-m...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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New preprint! Reflexivity in action: a qualitative study on how researchers interpret and practice reflexivity 💢

With Ebru Eksi and Femke Truijens

Full text here:

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(PDF) Reflexivity in Action: A Qualitative Study on How Researchers Interpret and Practice Reflexivity
PDF | Reflexivity is a key principle for ethical research and well-known in the qualitative literature. However, while many has been written about... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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September 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Still in the summer write-up of papers?

Have a look at the call for papers on "Quality of life in people with mental disorders – beyond global scores" at Quality of Life Research
link.springer.com/collections/...

Linked Editorial
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#HRQL #HRQOL #HealthEconomics
Quality of life in people with mental disorders – beyond global scores
The World Health Organization's 65th World Health Assembly stated that the global burden of mental disorders accounts for 25–33% of all disabilities and ...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
melissadesmet.bsky.social
🎉 New paper published on #adolescents' #identity experiences.

Using a bottom-up #qualitative approach, the study contributes to understanding how adolescents develop their identities, by navigating multiple, contradicting sociocultural discourses.

Link to a longer post and full text here👇
🎉 New paper on adolescents' identity experiences in today's society. | Melissa De Smet
🎉 New paper on adolescents' identity experiences in today's society. In this study, we explored the influence of culture on adolescent identity formation using the master narrative framework. Using...
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August 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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jrboehnke.bsky.social
Looking even more forward to discussing the contributions in this panel as earlier this week this excellent paper by Jana Uher was published which refers to the work of multiple presenters:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

#SPRKrakow2025 #MixedMethods #QualitativeMethods #PhilSky #Psychometrics
June 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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jrboehnke.bsky.social
To prepare for tomorrow's panel
"Quality & Quantity: Using #MixedMethods to aid measurement-supported psychotherapy"
how about reading this paper? 👇

Mixed methods allow for an active and continuous validation beyond technological and statistical approaches.

#SPRKrakow2025 #Psychometrics #Networks
June 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly
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The MAHA Report Has Been Updated With Fresh Errors
One psychologist who is newly cited in the report said the updated reference misconstrues his research.
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May 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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We presented our first insights from the ASAP project at #SAA2025. This project develops a youth-tailored mixed methods ESM design.
Check it out osf.io/r6wmp/ 👈

Jennifer Chen presented her first study on youth-driven ESM choices. Find all protocols and materials here: osf.io/5np97/ 👈
May 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Now published online in Qualitative Psychology!🎉 Our argument for #qualitative and #mixedmethods research as powerful means to validate the meaningfulness of idiographic assessment aimed at personalized care.
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Full text here 👇
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Toward Meaningful Networks: How Qualitative Research Can Inform Idiographic Assessment and Personalized Care | Request PDF
Request PDF | Toward Meaningful Networks: How Qualitative Research Can Inform Idiographic Assessment and Personalized Care | With the aim of personalized care, an idiographic framework and network-bas...
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December 18, 2024 at 11:17 AM