Mental Health and Telehealth
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UNIVYI- to UNIVYIZ

The MHSRP's projects addressing psychiatric disability and rehabilitation focus on such areas as vocational, residential, and educational rehabilitation services; crisis management and prevention of hospitalization; the needs of women and those from diverse cultural backgrounds; and systems integration. The MHSRP also emphasizes the needs and experiences of individuals living with HIV/AIDS, including those who also have mental illness. In addition, individual projects address treatment for homeless individuals with psychiatric disability, as well as the experiences of family members of those living with this disability.

Objectives:

• Facilitate the development of qualitative research methods across a wide variety of academic disciplines
• Demonstrate the promise of qualitative inquiry as a form of democratic practice, to show how qualitative inquiry can be used to directly engage pressing social issues at the level of local, state, national and global communities
• Provide leadership to address the main issues in qualitative inquiry
• Promote excellence in qualitative research through education, research and publication in its scholarly journals
• Provide a forum for collaboration among international experts in the field of qualitative inquiry
• Facilitate interdisciplinary graduate education and training in the field of qualitative inquiry
• Facilitate interaction in the international community of qualitative inquiry

The official publications of the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry are:

• Qualitative Inquiry.
• Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies.