scholarly journals Survey of roles of community psychiatric nurses and occupational therapists

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pam Filson ◽  
Tony Kendrick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Anxiety Management ◽  
Community Psychiatric

The roles of community mental health professionals may overlap and need clarifying. A survey is described of 95 occupational therapists (OT) and 200 community psychiatric nurses (CPN), of their views on their respective roles, and information on current practices. Administering medication and crisis intervention were regarded as specifically CPN roles, yet 26% of CPNs did not regularly administer medication. Half of the CPNs' clients were not chronically mentally ill, and over two-thirds of the nurses regularly carried out counselling and anxiety management. Assessing activities of daily living and work skills were seen specifically as OT tasks, yet 60% of the OTs did not usually assess work skills in practice. Roles overlapped considerably, suggesting that a more efficient approach might be to develop a generic core training for community mental health workers.

Transcultural issues in the dynamics of a Balint clinical reflection group for community mental health workers

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Leggett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Reflection Group ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Community Mental Health Workers

The author presents transcultural issues in the content, process, and group dynamics of consecutive meetings of a Balint clinical reflection group for community mental health workers at Inala, Australia. Balint work and the context and evolution of the group process are briefly described, as is the consultative research methodology. The process of a Balint group meeting is reported in detail, following the author’s consultation with group members. The collaborative work of a culturally diverse team of mental health professionals is examined in the context of discussion of a practitioner–patient relationship in which transcultural, gender, and family conflicts were the focus of affective and cognitive dissonance. For mental health workers engaging with communities of cultural diversity, Balint reflection groups can facilitate insight into cultural countertransferences that adversely affect clinical work. The group served to support the caseworkers’ engagement with patients of different cultures, and provided a safe environment for the creative consideration and exploration in fantasy of the emotional pressures and complex ethical dilemmas related to boundaries in transcultural client–practitioner relationships, including those in which open discussion would otherwise be avoided.

The Social Contact Group: An Example of Long-Term Group Work in Community Mental Health Care

1995 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 214-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Community Mental Health Services ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
Day Services

Social contact groups offer support and social activities to long-term users of community mental health services. In this study, seven groups in Surrey were compared with 10 groups elsewhere, using information supplied by group leaders. From this comparison, those features that characterise social contact groups have been identified. In addition, those individuals attending the groups in Surrey were invited to identify the benefits of membership. Their positive response indicated the success of these groups in meeting their need for social contact and suggests that this approach should be considered by those developing day services for people with long-term needs. Occupational therapists, with their expertise in analysing and coordinating activities, have a major role to play in organising these groups in conjunction with other mental health workers.

scholarly journals Chinese mental health workers’ family-focused practices: a cross-sectional survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Yao ◽  
Lili Guan ◽  
Changchun Zhang ◽  
Yang Pan ◽  
Jinxiang Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Convenience Sample

Abstract Background Mental disorders impose heavy burdens on patients’ families and children. It is imperative to provide family-focused services to avoid adverse effects from mental disorders on patients’ families and children. However, implementing such services requires a great deal of involvement of mental health workers. This study investigated the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and practices in respect to family-focused practices (FFP) in a sample of Chinese mental health workers. Methods A cross-sectional study design was employed to examine the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and practices of a convenience sample of Chinese mental health workers in respect to FFP, using the Chinese version of the Family-Focused Mental Health Practice Questionnaire (FFMHPQ). Results In total, 515 mental health workers participated in our study, including 213 psychiatrists, 269 psychiatric nurses, and 34 allied mental health professionals (20 clinical psychologists, 9 mental health social workers, and 4 occupational therapists). Compared with psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists and allied mental health professionals provided more support for families and children of patients with mental illness and were more willing to receive further training in FFP. However, there were no significant differences on knowledge, skills, and confidence across different profession types. After adjusting for demographic and occupational variables, previous training in FFP was positively associated with mental health workers’ knowledge, skills, and confidence about FFP, but not actual support to families and children. Conclusions Professional differences on FFP exist in Chinese mental health workers. Training is needed to engage psychiatrists and other allied workforce in dissemination and implementation of FFP in China.

scholarly journals Fund-holding and commissioning general practitioners

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 196-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Kendrick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Secondary Care ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Community Mental Health Services ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Direct Referral

General practice fund-holders purchase secondary care for their patients directly, encouraging competition between providers. The scheme now includes almost all community mental health services. Practice counsellors may now be funded from secondary care budgets. Fund-holders may use their purchasing power to influence out-patient policies, have consultant sessions in their surgeries, gain direct referral to community psychiatric nurses, resist sectorisation, or change to a different provider altogether. The implications for mental health teams and their patients are discussed. Mental health workers must define their roles very dearly, and get involved in negotiating contracts now, to influence future service provision.

scholarly journals The market for a community rehabilitation service

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-76
Author(s):  
M.T. Spurrell ◽  
C.S. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Rehabilitation Service ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
Community Rehabilitation ◽  
Home Based

Fifty-two mental health workers in South Manchester were asked to complete a survey to try to identify patients with chronic mental health problems who would benefit from home-based rehabilitation. These patients were known to the services but were unwilling to attend activities in the day hospital or day centre or come into hospital for in-patient rehabilitation. Seventy per cent of the mental health workers who comprised psychiatrists, social workers and community psychiatric nurses completed the survey. Overall 68 patients were identified. Negative symptoms or defect state were the most frequently reported problems with difficulties with engaging or poor compliance being the next most frequently reported problem. There were some differences in the ranking of the order of problems by different professional groups.

scholarly journals Links between fund-holding general practices and mental health professionals

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 603-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. I. R. Mutale
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Postal Questionnaire ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Psychiatric Nurse ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
General Practices

A postal questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 300 fund-holding general practices. Respondents were asked to indicate if they had links with a psychiatrist, community psychiatric nurse or psychologist; 210 (70%) general practitioners returned completed questionnaires. Out of 210 practices 161 (77%) had links with at least one specialist mental health professional. Community psychiatric nurses had links with more practices than psychiatrists or psychologists. Problems with time or space made it difficult for practices to form links.

Foucault’s Care of the Self: A Case from Mental Health Work

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 1485-1504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Randall ◽  
Iain Munro
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Psychiatric Nurse ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Mental Health Work

This research concerns mental health workers who treat the victims of sexual abuse. The health workers were all part of a forum composed of doctors, counsellors and a community psychiatric nurse, who met to discuss issues of best practice in their everyday work. The research examined how these workers make sense of their work, particularly in terms of how they understand the concept of care and the kinds of knowledge that they use in their work, professional and otherwise. A great deal of scepticism was expressed concerning the traditional medical approaches to caring for the victims of abuse, and as a consequence these practitioners developed pragmatic and exploratory approaches to caring in order to help their clients. Many important similarities exist between the accounts given by the medical and voluntary practitioners of this forum and the insights of Michel Foucault’s genealogical studies of medicine, particularly his analysis of processes of normalization and his later work on the care of the self. This paper provides a re-evaluation of the concept of mental health care in terms of Foucault’s concept of ‘the care of the self’.

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