scholarly journals Evaluating reflective practice groups in a mental health context: Swedish translation and psychometric evaluation of the clinical supervision evaluation questionnaire

BMC Nursing ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gabrielsson ◽  
Å. Engström ◽  
S. Gustafsson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Questionnaire

Feeling stuck: exploring experiences of junior doctors

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Lauren Alexander ◽  
Eimear Counihan ◽  
Deirdre McNally ◽  
Leonard Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Paper Version ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
System Factors ◽  
Clinical Interactions

Objectives: Staff working in mental health services provide care for individuals with a variety of difficulties, which can pose treatment challenges. Perceived lack of progress in patients can engender uncomfortable feelings within the clinician, such as frustration, ‘heartsink’ and ‘feeling stuck’. The aim of this study was to explore the phenomenon of ‘feeling stuck’ amongst NCHDs in psychiatry. Methods: A total of 30 participants were recruited from three psychiatric hospitals to complete a 15-item questionnaire. The survey was designed to pursue a thematic analysis. Participants were asked to complete the survey anonymously, either online or paper version. The analysis was carried out by two researchers using open coding, with themes finalised through collective discourse. Results: Three themes were elicited from the data. The central theme – ‘causes of feeling stuck’ – consisted of three subthemes (patient, doctor and system factors). Participants were adept at describing patient and system factors, but reflected on doctor factors, such as countertransference, less often and in less detail. Other themes, explored in less detail by respondents, were ‘the experience of feeling stuck’ and ‘responses to feeling stuck’, with participants tending to seek solutions to, rather than an understanding of, these feelings. Conclusions: Trainee psychiatrists can clearly identify the situations where they are ‘stuck’ with clinical interactions. In spite of clinical supervision and reflective practice groups, they desire further training in managing these scenarios. NCHDs would benefit from further training, using these ‘stuck’ interactions as material, to further develop their understanding of the underlying factors in both themselves and their patients.

scholarly journals The Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH): Psychometric Evaluation and Initial Validation of the SSSH Baseline Spirituality Survey

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Erica T. Warner ◽  
Blake Victor Kent ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
M. Austin Argentieri ◽  
Wade C. Rowatt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Psychometric Testing ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Spirituality And Health ◽  
Wide Range

This paper describes the development and initial psychometric testing of the baseline Spirituality Survey (SS-1) from the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH). The SS-1 contains a mixture of items selected from validated existing scales and new items generated to measure important constructs not captured by existing instruments, and our purpose here was to establish the validity of new and existing measures in a racially/ethnically diverse sample. Psychometric properties of the SS-1 were evaluated using standard psychometric analyses in 4563 SSSH participants. Predictive validity of SS-1 scales was assessed in relation to the physical and mental health component scores from the Short-Form 12 Health Survey (SF-12). Scales exhibited adequate to strong psychometric properties and demonstrated construct and predictive validity. Overall, the correlational findings provided solid evidence that the SS-1 scales are associated with a wide range of relevant R/S attitudes, mental health, and to a lesser degree physical health.

Policy, Practice and Education 2004: Supplementary prescribing: mental health and learning disabilities

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
British Journal ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Community Nursing ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Nurse Prescribing ◽  
Supplementary Prescribing

Jukes M et al. Nurse prescribing: a case for clinical supervision. British Journal of Community Nursing 2004; 9(7): 291–297.

Psychometric Evaluation of the interRAI Child and Youth Mental Health Disruptive/Aggression Behaviour Scale (DABS) and Hyperactive/Distraction Scale (HDS)

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe Lau ◽  
Shannon L. Stewart ◽  
Donald H. Saklofske ◽  
Paul F. Tremblay ◽  
John Hirdes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Youth Mental Health

scholarly journals The power of reflective practice: evaluating the impact of a psychoeducation and reflective practice group for surgical nursing staff and health care assistants in a trauma centre

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S191-S191
Author(s):  
R Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Trauma Centre ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Practice Group ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Southmead Hospital

AimsTo offer a psychoeducation and reflective practice group for nursing staff (NS) and health care assistants (HCAs) working on a Trauma and Orthopaedics Ward in Southmead Hospital, Bristol. To explore the staff experience of having a reflective space, and how this impacted on their attitudes and knowledge and confidence in psychiatric presentations.BackgroundReflective practice can raise the quality and consistency of nursing care, but it is not part of everyday culture and practice. Southmead Hospital is a trauma centre and the surgical NS and HCAs care for multiple patients following self-harm or suicide attempts. They report at times not having the mental health knowledge and confidence to appropriately manage patients on the ward and are at high risk of occupational stress and burnout. Our mental health liaison team (MHLT) identified this need and offered to provide a space to address these concerns and evaluate the impact of this intervention.MethodAfter liaising with the ward manager, I developed and provided a fortnightly forty-minute psychoeducation and reflective practice group for NS and HCAs on one Trauma and Orthopaedic ward in Southmead Hospital. Topics were rotated and included suicidal ideation, self-harming behaviour, mind and body link, the stress -vulnerability model and verbal aggression.The staff were asked to complete anonymous paired pre-and post-course questionnaires about their attitudes and confidence regarding mental health difficulties. This questionnaire included both quantitative components (e.g. 1–5 Likert scales) and qualitative components (free text boxes) which were analysed and coded accordingly.ResultQuantitative results showed that staff felt it was important to learn about mental health conditions and have a reflective space. Their confidence and knowledge improved in understanding and managing psychiatric presentations. Qualitative results revealed several common themes – (i) Space; staff valued a protected, structured, safe space, (ii) Relationships: staff valued sharing with colleagues and supporting each other, (iii) Sharing and learning; staff valued a space to think about patient's formulations, discuss common experiences, express their own emotions and learn from each other and (iv) Psychoeducation; the staff welcomed ideas of ways to communicate with patients and specific skills to use on the wards.ConclusionTrauma and Orthopaedic NS and HCAs perceived a range of benefits from participating in a psychoeducation and reflective practice group. Further research is required to evaluate whether reflective practice groups help to reduce staff burnout and can change the ward ethos to improve the patient experience.

scholarly journals Development and validity of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI): a value-sensitive questionnaire for the assessment of mental health stigma

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Rieckhof ◽  
Christian Sander ◽  
Sven Speerforck ◽  
Elke Prestin ◽  
Matthias C. Angermeyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Item Difficulty ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Mental Illness Stigma ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Mental Health Stigma ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
New Instrument

Abstract Background It has been hypothesized that mental illness stigma differs according to what matters most to people, and that this results in value-based differences in stigma within societies. However, there is a lack of stigma measures that account for a broad range of values, including modern and liberal values. Methods For the development of the Value-based Stigma Inventory (VASI) a preliminary item-pool of 68 VASI-items was assembled by mental health and stigma experts. For psychometric evaluation, we tested the VASI in an online sample of the general population (n = 4983). Results Based on item-characteristics as well as explorative and confirmatory factor analyses, a final version of the VASI was developed, comprising 15 items and 5 subscales. The VASI shows good psychometric properties (item difficulty = 0.34 to 0.67; mean inter-item correlation r = 0.326; Cronbach’s α = 0.879). Medium to high correlations with established stigma scales (SDS, SSMI), medium associations with instruments assessing personal values (PVQ, KSA-3) and small to no associations with a social desirability scale (KSE-G) attest to good convergent and discriminatory validity of the new instrument. Normative values for the VASI subscales are presented. Conclusions The developed VASI can be used to assess public stigma of mental illness including personal stigma-relevant value orientations.

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