Symposia & Collectives
KOG organizes (hybrid) symposia to connect members with a wide range of interests. During symposia, (prospective) members meet to exchange knowledge and experiences and inspire each other.
Meetings are hybrid:
- We meet alternately at the University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- The symposia can be attended digitally through MSTeams. We provide interaction moments with participants in the digital audience, and you can join in the chat.
- You will receive the live location and MSTeams link via email no later than one week before the symposium.
You can sign up using the registration form. Participation is free for members. Registration is required due to maximum space occupancy.
Would you like to actively contribute to the organization of a symposium, or do you have an idea for a speaker or collective? Let us know via the contact form!
AGENDA
Symposium 1. Qualitative research in clinical practice
When: Friday, Feb. 9, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Where: University of Amsterdam Roeterseiland and MSTeams
Chairs: Annemarie Kohne and Femke Truijens
Qualitative methods make visible stories that live in clinical practice. Both from practitioners and people with experiential knowledge. A qualitative method allows for a bottom-up research approach from which new meanings and concepts can emerge. Especially when we want to understand a phenomenon from clinical practice in depth, or try to record a new concept, qualitative research lends itself extremely well. In this symposium, we will share some inspiring examples that show what qualitative research can bring to practice. We also address common questions surrounding research design and implementation in clinical practice.
Symposium 2. Qualitative research: education & training
When: Friday, March 15, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Where: University of Amsterdam Roeterseiland and MSTeams
Chairs: Arjen Noordhof and Femke Truijens
Training is needed to promote qualitative research in the mental health field. Both in medical training and in psychology at Dutch universities, qualitative methods are given too little attention. This is fortunately shifting and KOGGZ wants to contribute significantly to this. In other places – social sciences, HBOs, abroad – there are already long and rich traditions in training good quality researchers. What can we learn from this? What works and what doesn’t? What is needed to get qualitative research on the educational agenda and in training curricula?
Symposium 3. Working with stories of experience
When: Friday, April 12, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Where: University of Amsterdam Roeterseiland and MSTeams
Chairs: Nienke van Sambeek and Marjolijn Heerings
Stories of experience provide a rich data source for research and practice. Meanwhile, there is a wide range of methods for analyzing stories of experience, and there are great examples of what this yields. During this symposium, chairs Nienke van Sambeek , Marjolijn Heerings and guest speaker Roman Giling share methods and practical examples around working with stories of experience.
Thematic analysis is a commonly used method for analyzing stories of experience. Roman Gilling shares his experiences with this and shows how to make stories of experience more widely applicable to professionals, education and peers. Narrative analysis is a more holistic method of analysis. Nienke shares her experiences with this using her research with stories of experience from the Psychiatry Story Bank. She conducted research on making meaning of trauma by people with psychosis sensitivity and illustrates what kind of tools narrative research provides to improve care delivery. Stories of experience come in many forms, not just from interviews. Marjolijn talks about working with ego documents (books) from the collection
patient experience stories
and how to retrieve experience stories from people for whom an interview situation is not accessible.
During this symposium we will look at what we can learn from each other experience stories we can learn from each other and what we want to develop further. develop.
Symposium 4. Qualitative learning & improvement
When: Friday, May 24, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Where: Erasmus University Rotterdam and MSTeams
Chairman: Marjolijn Heerings
Qualitative methods to learn, improve and account for care are on the rise in the mental health industry. Organizations are using methods such as “Mirror Talks,” “Images of Quality” and “If You Ask Us” to retrieve client experiences and learn from them. What is happening in this area in the mental health field? How can we support each other to further develop and put qualitative learning and improvement on the map? We will exchange experiences about that during this symposium.
Symposium 5. Meaningful Measurement & Validation in Practice
When: Friday, June 28, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Where: Erasmus University Rotterdam and MSTeams
Chairman: Femke Truijens and Lisa Wijsen
In mental health and clinical research, much is measured: diagnoses, effects of interventions, routine outcome measurement (ROM), group comparison, and so on. But what do people really mean when they quantify their own experiences in a pre-structured framework like a questionnaire? Do their scores capture the meanings that we as researchers or clinicians also attach to them? And are those numbers indeed meaningful and validly comparable? In this symposium, we will address the meaningfulness of the scoring process when people score self-report measures. We review our standard conception of validity and discuss how argument-based or user-centered validity can help validate in practice.
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