Staff Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of Behavioral Health Homes at Community Mental Health Provider Settings

This study explored staff perceptions of barriers and facilitators to BHH implementation. We conducted semi-structured interviews with CMHP staff at baseline, 1, and 2 years after the start of implementation. We analyzed interviews to identify major themes. We conducted 65 total interviews with 30 unique staff members. Common barriers included staff turnover, hesitation to change care processes, and acute service user needs. Facilitators included agency-wide culture change, intervention champions, and integration of intervention processes into daily workflows. Despite common barriers, CMHP staff identified several elements related to successful BHH implementation, including the CMHP-wide cultural shift to comprehensively address health/wellness that benefitted service users and staff alike.PMID:34799772 | DOI:10.1007/s10597-021-00918-2

Source: Community Mental Health Journal - November 20, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Cara Nikolajski Kelly Williams Patricia Schake Tracy Carney Megan Hamm James Schuster Source Type: research