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Supporting recovery: challenges for in-home psychiatric support workers
- Authors:
- SHEPHERD Nicole, MEEHAN Tom, HUMPHRIES Seiji
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 19(2), 2014, pp.73-83.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: This paper highlights the challenges faced by in-home psychiatric support workers in implementing recovery in their work with clients with severe psychiatric disability. Design/methodology/approach: The findings are based on interviews with 27 support workers and ten managers of organisations providing support services. These were collected as part of evaluations of two supported housing programmes carried out between 2010 and 2011. Findings: Challenges faced by support workers coalesced around two areas: first, balancing the need to provide care with the need to promote autonomy and second, developing an effective working relationship while working mainly within a clients’ home. Practical implications: These challenges for support workers highlight tensions within the recovery vision that are not easily resolved. To ensure high quality, recovery-oriented care services are provided, support workers need access to training courses that focus on challenging areas of this work and should be provided with regular professional supervision. Originality/value: Existing literature on support workers has generally focused on the nature of the role and support worker interactions with other health workers. In this paper, the authors highlight difficulties faced by support workers in implementing the vision of recovery in their work. The paper provides important information for policy makers and managers who are designing service delivery systems that aim to promote recovery. (Edited publisher abstract)
Handbook of psychosocial rehabilitation
- Authors:
- KING Robert, LLOYD Chris, MEEHAN Tom
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 227p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The Handbook of Psychosocial Rehabilitation is designed as a clinical handbook for practitioners in the field of mental health. It recognises the wide-ranging impact of mental illness and its ramifications on daily life. The book promotes a recovery model of psychosocial rehabilitation and aims to empower clinicians to engage their clients in tailored rehabilitation plans. The authors distil relevant evidence from the literature, but the focus is on the clinical setting. Coverage includes the service environment, assessment, maintaining recovery-focussed therapeutic relationships, the role of pharmacotherapy, intensive case management and vocational rehabilitation.