This edited volume brings together reflexive accounts from scholars and practitioners working on diverse mental-health research across India. The 16 chapters cover topics ranging from implementation research, sexual violence against women, children in childcare institutes, grit and rumination, neurodevelopmental disorders, critical ethnography, data versus theory models, psychiatric research ethics, COVID 19 research, authenticity research, loss and grief research, parentification research, developmental disability, latent profile analysis, social media data collection, and visual methodology.