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The dodo bird verdict and the elephant in the room: A service user-led investigation of crisis resolution and home treatment.
- Source :
- Health Sociology Review; Jun2011, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p147-156, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Recent years have seen an international move towards home treatment of acute mental health difficulties. This has been based upon trial data which do little to develop understanding of how or why this approach is as effective as it seems to be. In order to explore this question the study interviewed patients who had recently used the services of a crisis resolution home treatment (CRHT) team in the English East Midlands. Triangulated parallel qualitative analyses of 33 semi-structured interviews conducted by service users trained in research techniques demonstrated that successful CRHT reflected practitioners' ability to provide clients with a sense of feeling safe, accepted and understood. Unhelpful outcomes followed when participants did not experience such unconditionally supportive relationships. These findings further endorse the primacy of relational factors in mental health practice. They are discussed in relation to the Dodo Bird verdict upon psychological therapies and systemic difficulties acknowledging an inconvenient truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CRISIS intervention (Mental health services)
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
HEALTH services accessibility
INTERVIEWING
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL personnel
PATIENT-professional relations
HEALTH outcome assessment
PATIENT safety
RESEARCH
QUALITATIVE research
HOME-based mental health services
SOCIAL support
TREATMENT effectiveness
PATIENTS' attitudes
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14461242
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Sociology Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 74485083
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2011.20.2.147