Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Mental Illness Research

In undertaking interdisciplinary research, a team of behavioral scientists anticipated that the principal problems of collaboration would be due to their conceptual diffences. However, methodological differences, here characterized in terms of "clinical" and "quantitative" points of view, turned out to be the major barriers to collaborative effort and generated issues regarding such operations as choice of research problem, sampling procedures, kinds of data, and techniques for collecting them. Other problems arose due due to the adjustements in role required by team research. The conceptual framework and methodological strategy in process of development by the team seeks to take systematic account of these differences.