Hearing voices is distressing and frightening, but cognitive psychology can provide a range of interventions that enable people to live with auditory hallucinations. Looks at ways to empower this patient group.
Hearing voices is distressing and frightening, but cognitive psychology can provide a range of interventions that enable people to live with auditory hallucinations. Looks at ways to empower this patient group.
Subject terms:
intervention, mental health problems, psychotherapy, stress, treatment, therapies, therapy and treatment, behaviour therapy, empowerment;
The claims made by a mental health secure unit to be a therapeutic community were explored using participant observation over a period of six weeks. The findings revealed unresolved conflicts between two groups of staff known as 'carers', who saw their role as therapeutic, and 'controllers', who saw their role as therapeutic, and 'controllers', who saw their role as being custodial. These conflicts compromised the unit's aim of being a therapeutic community. The implications for clients are discussed. Ethical issues raised by this type of covert participant observation are also discussed.
The claims made by a mental health secure unit to be a therapeutic community were explored using participant observation over a period of six weeks. The findings revealed unresolved conflicts between two groups of staff known as 'carers', who saw their role as therapeutic, and 'controllers', who saw their role as therapeutic, and 'controllers', who saw their role as being custodial. These conflicts compromised the unit's aim of being a therapeutic community. The implications for clients are discussed. Ethical issues raised by this type of covert participant observation are also discussed.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, offenders, research ethics, secure units, therapies, therapy and treatment, ethics, evaluation, forensic psychiatry;