scholarly journals Easier Said Than Done: The Challenge to Teach “Personal Recovery” to Mental Health Professionals Through a Short, Targeted and Structured Training Programme

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Giusti ◽  
Donatella Ussorio ◽  
Anna Salza ◽  
Massimo Casacchia ◽  
Rita Roncone
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychiatric Rehabilitation ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Personal Recovery ◽  
Recovery Orientation ◽  
Recovery Knowledge Inventory

AbstractThis study assesses the effectiveness of our short Personal Recovery Training Program (PRTP) for mental health professionals. Fifty-two healthcare professionals from Italian mental health services and forty students in psychiatric rehabilitation completed the Recovery Knowledge Inventory (RKI) pre- and post-training, divided into two groups: the PRTP (N = 45) and the Family Psychoeducational Training Program (FPTP; N = 47). Participants’ understanding of personal recovery improved more significantly for those in the PRTP than for those in the FPTP group in two domains, “Roles and responsibilities” and “Non-linearity of the recovery process”; the FPTP group showed a significant improvement in the “Role of self-definition and peers in recovery” domain. Two consumers were involved in the PRTP and represented a resource to help participants understand the personal recovery process. Our findings indicate that a brief PRTP supported by consumers can improve staff and students' recovery orientation. The translation of the training into clinical practice remains unevaluated.

scholarly journals Predictors of stigma in a sample of mental health professionals: Network and moderator analysis on gender, years of experience, personality traits, and levels of burnout

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Solmi ◽  
Umberto Granziol ◽  
Andrea Danieli ◽  
Alberto Frasson ◽  
Leonardo Meneghetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Personal Accomplishment ◽  
Personal Recovery ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Moderator Analysis

Abstract Background. Stigma is one of the most important barriers to help-seeking and to personal recovery for people suffering from mental disorders. Stigmatizing attitudes are present among mental health professionals with negative effects on the quality of health care. Methods. Network and moderator analysis were used to identify what path determines stigma, considering demographic and professional variables, personality traits, and burnout dimensions in a sample of mental health professionals (n = 318) from six Community Mental Health Services. The survey included the Attribution Questionnaire-9, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and the Ten-Item Personality Inventory. Results. The personality trait of openness to new experiences resulted to determine lower levels of stigma. Burnout (personal accomplishment) interacted with emotional stability in predicting stigma, and specifically, for subjects with lower emotional stability lower levels of personal accomplishment were associated with higher levels of stigma. Conclusions. Some personality traits may be accompanied by better empathic and communication skills, and may have a protective role against stigma. Moreover, burnout can increase stigma, in particular in subjects with specific personality traits. Assessing personality and burnout levels could help in identifying mental health professionals at higher risk of developing stigma. Future studies should determine whether targeted interventions in mental health professionals at risk of developing stigma may be effective in stigma prevention.

scholarly journals Implementation and Effectiveness of Interpersonal Psychotherapy in a Community Mental Health Service

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Reay ◽  
Scott Stuart ◽  
Cathy Owen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Post Partum ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Interpersonal Psychotherapy ◽  
Community Mental Health Service ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Empirically Supported

Objective: Although the efficacy of a number of psychotherapeutic interventions has been well established in tightly controlled, randomized trials, there remains a paucity of literature examining the effectiveness of these interventions in community practice settings. In light of this, the Australian Capital Territory Mental Health Services (Canberra, ACT) set out to investigate the effectiveness of an empirically supported psychotherapeutic intervention, interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT). The present study describes a pilot evaluation of the training programme for health professionals and the IPT treatment programme. Methods: Forty community mental health professionals participated in intensive IPT training. Clinicians who completed a course of supervision were asked to apply the treatment with non-psychotic acutely depressed patients. Measures of patients’ health outcomes were taken before and after treatment using a standardized outcome measure. Results: A total of 17 out of 21 patients who were selected completed a course of 12–16 weeks of IPT. The majority of the patients had a depression originating in the post-partum period. A comparison of pre- and post-treatment scores of treatment completers revealed a significant decrease in mean depression scores. Clinicians who completed a course of training and supervision found that they were able to confidently apply IPT in a clinical setting. Conclusions: Although there were a number of barriers and obstacles to the introduction of an evidenced-based treatment, the results are promising and demonstrate that IPT can be readily taught to experienced mental health professionals. Further study is required to determine the feasibility of IPT in other non-academic settings using larger sample sizes and homogenous groups of patients.

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