Mental Health Professionals' Experiences with Applying a Family-Centred Care Focus in Their Clinical Work.

Mental Health Professionals' Experiences with Applying a Family-Centred Care Focus in Their Clinical Work.
Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2020 May 13;:1-9
Authors: Skundberg-Kletthagen H, Gonzalez MT, Schröder A, Moen ØL
Abstract
Family members play vital roles in supporting their young adults with mental health challenges, implying that professionals are challenged to apply a Family-Centred Care approach (FCC) in community mental health services. By applying a qualitative phenomengraphic approach, this study aimed to explore and describe professionals' experiences of applying a FCC approach. Based on data from 13 individual interviews, the descriptive categories were: Mutual understanding, Facing dilemmas and Dealing with barriers. Despite the professionals' expressed desires to involve the family, individual treatment and follow-up seemed to characterize their daily clinical practice, often due to the young adults' own wishes.
PMID: 32401564 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Issues in Mental Health Nursing - May 15, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Issues Ment Health Nurs Source Type: research