scholarly journals Innovations in the teaching-learning process of psychiatric nursing and mental health

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (suppl 5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Mara de Melo Tavares ◽  
Américo de Araujo Pastor Junior ◽  
Laís Mariano de Paiva ◽  
Thainá Oliveira Lima
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Psychiatric Nursing ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Human Uniqueness ◽  
Nursing Courses ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Collaborative Activities

ABSTRACT Objective: to know innovative pedagogical experiences developed by professors in the teaching of psychiatric nursing and mental health in undergraduate nursing courses at public universities in Rio de Janeiro State. Method: based on an ethnomethodological approach, individual semi-structured interviews and document analysis were carried out according to content analysis. Results: despite the heterogeneity in the curriculum distribution of psychiatric nursing’s and mental health’s knowledge, the themes taught have similarities. The perceptions of innovation are mainly related to interdisciplinary practices and teaching, relational, and care technologies. Innovative teaching practices are focused on the use of active methodologies and collaborative activities. Final considerations: innovating teaching requires creating strategies to teach people how to care for people, valuing human uniqueness. Student participation in health services is the key to the dialogue between knowledge produced in academia and that mobilized in health services.

scholarly journals Mental health actions and nurse’s work

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janaína Cristina Pasquini de Almeida ◽  
Celma Aparecida Barbosa ◽  
Letícia Yamawaka de Almeida ◽  
Jaqueline Lemos de Oliveira ◽  
Jacqueline de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Patient Care Team ◽  
Psychiatric Nursing ◽  
The Body ◽  
Structured Interviews

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the perception of nurses and other members of the patient care team about nurses’ actions in mental health care. Methods: the study was conducted with professionals from mental health services in the interior of the state of São Paulo. The data collected through semi-structured interviews, a questionnaire with closed questions and a focus group were submitted to content analysis. Results: the participants referred mainly to the nursing care with the body and physical health, but also identified the nurse as a “gateway” for care, facilitator and integrator of actions and as the professional who has more contact with the user. Final considerations: although the stereotype of nursing as “body caregiver” refers to the beginnings of psychiatric nursing, the perception of the participants showed aspects that suggest a change in relation to the role traditionally attributed to this profession.

The transition between mental health services in Scotland

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette van der Kamp
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Organisational Development ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Experience Difficulty

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the barriers and facilitators to an effective transition from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS). It also presents a new entry into considering how the transition can be improved. Design/methodology/approach Insights into the transition from CAMHS to AMHS were gathered through eight semi-structured interviews with mental health professionals. Two methods of data analysis were employed to explore the emerging themes in the data and the observed deficit approach to organisational development. Findings The findings identified a vast volume of barriers in comparison to facilitators to the transition. Adolescents who transition from CAMHS to AMHS initially experience difficulty adapting to the differences in the services due to the short duration of the transition period. However, despite the established barriers to the transition, adolescents tend to adapt to the differences between the services. Findings also showed a negative framing towards the transition amongst the mental health professionals which resembles a deficit approach to organisational development. Originality/value This paper explores mental health professionals’ perspectives regarding the transition in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The transition is increasingly recognised as an area in health care that requires improvement. This research provides a new way to consider the transition by exploring the perceived deficit approach to organisational development in the services.

scholarly journals Influences on participation in a programme addressing loneliness among people with depression and anxiety: findings from the Community Navigator Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Frerichs ◽  
Jo Billings ◽  
Nick Barber ◽  
Anjie Chhapia ◽  
Beverley Chipp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Feasibility Trial ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Structured Interviews

Abstract Background Loneliness is associated with negative outcomes, including increased mortality and is common among people with mental health problems. This qualitative study, which was carried out as part of a feasibility trial, aimed to understand what enables and hinders people with severe depression and/or anxiety under the care of secondary mental health services in the United Kingdom to participate in the Community Navigator programme, and make progress with feelings of depression, anxiety and loneliness. The programme consisted of up to ten meetings with a Community Navigator and three optional group sessions. Methods Semi-structured interviews were carried out with participants (n = 19) shortly after programme completion. A co-produced two-stage qualitative approach, involving narrative and reflexive thematic analysis, was undertaken by members of the study’s working group, which included experts by experience, clinicians and researchers. Results The narrative analysis showed that individuals have varied goals, hold mixed feelings about meeting other people and define progress differently. From the thematic analysis, six themes were identified that explained facilitators and challenges to participating in the programme: desire to connect with others; individual social confidence; finding something meaningful to do; the accessibility of resources locally; the timing of the programme; and the participant’s relationship with the Community Navigator. Conclusions We found that people with severe depression and/or anxiety supported by secondary mental health services may want to address feelings of loneliness but find it emotionally effortful to do so and a major personal challenge. This emotional effort, which manifests in individuals differently, can make it hard for participants to engage with a loneliness programme, though it was through facing personal challenges that a significant sense of achievement was felt. Factors at the individual, interpersonal and structural level, that enable or hinder an individual’s participation should be identified early, so that people are able to make the best use out of the Community Navigator or other similar programmes.

scholarly journals MENTAL HEALTH NURSING EDUCATION IN BRAZIL: PERSPECTIVES FOR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Perpétuo Socorro de Sousa Nóbrega ◽  
Cinthia Mariotto Martins Venzel ◽  
Ellen Santos de Sales ◽  
Alessandro Coldibelli Próspero
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Care Education ◽  
Nursing Courses

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the limitations, strategies, importance and obstacles in mental health education in undergraduate nursing, focused on the role of nurses in Primary Health Care. Method: An exploratory descriptive study conducted with 103 professors in the mental health area of Bachelor/Postgraduate nursing courses from 89 public Higher Education Institutions in the five regions of Brazil. Results: Only 23.3% (24) of the professors teach mental health classes only in primary health care. Of the sample, the limitations to teaching in primary care education are few class hours (46.6%), faculty to expand teaching beyond specialty settings (38.8%), and prioritization of other scenarios (48.5%). When teaching, the strategies used are home visits (43.7%), educational actions (34.0%) and active search for mental health cases (29.1%). The professors consider them important to support mental health actions (58.3%); and the barriers are the lack of articulation between the Collective Health and Health disciplines to conduct teaching (87.5%). Conclusion: It is suggested that the institutions, courses and professors make the commitment and focus efforts to overcome the gaps, which hinder the nurse’s education process regarding primary knowledge in mental health, so that they can offer care to patients in psychological distress in the context of the community, as well as strengthen national mental health policy.

Wellbeing and experiences of Chinese and Vietnamese carers of people with mental illness in Australia

2020 ◽  
pp. 136346152095262
Author(s):  
Abner Weng Cheong Poon ◽  
Maria Cassaniti ◽  
Michele Sapucci ◽  
Rosaleen Ow
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Cultural Safety ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis

Many studies show that carers of people with mental illness experience a negative impact on their wellbeing. Given the growing number of people relocating to Australia every year, there are limited studies examining the experience of carers of people with mental illness from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia. Using cultural safety as a conceptual framework, this exploratory study recruited 14 carers of Chinese and Vietnamese heritage who were attending culturally and linguistically oriented support groups in Sydney, Australia. Standardised, validated scales were administered to measure carers’ wellbeing and knowledge of recovery. Structured interviews were conducted to understand carers’ perceived needs. Descriptive statistical and qualitative thematic analysis were used. Findings show that carers experienced social isolation and psychological distress, had multiple diverse needs and had a reasonably good understanding of recovery. Six themes were identified: i) obtaining information in own language; ii) attaining emotional support from support groups; iii) needing respite services to cope with caregiving responsibilities; iv) involvement in planning of treatment and care; v) migration process influencing caregiving, and; vi) cultural and transcultural factors influencing caregiving experience. Findings indicate that some carers might be experiencing some level of culturally unsafe practices in mainstream mental health services. Implications for support groups and mental health services are discussed.

Mental Health Service Needs of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth: Voices of Survivors and Stakeholders

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-362
Author(s):  
Rachel Robitz ◽  
Emilio C. Ulloa ◽  
Marissa Salazar ◽  
Monica D. Ulibarri
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Individual Therapy ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Level Of Understanding

Youth who experience commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) have complex mental health needs. This study describes what CSE survivors and stakeholders who work with them desire in mental health services. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 CSE survivors 16–20 years old, and 15 community experts on CSE (n = 25). Thematic analyses indicated CSE survivors value mental health services including individual therapy and coping skills, and they wanted providers who are nonjudgmental, and exhibit some level of understanding of CSE. Community stakeholders described skills important for CSE survivors to gain from mental health services including recognition of patterns of victimization, self-worth, and emotion regulation. Both stakeholders and CSE youth desired services that give survivors some control over their treatment and recovery utilizing a trauma-informed approach.

Have the Invisible Children Become Visible?

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 678-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Vanharen ◽  
Catherine Laroche ◽  
Marsha Heyman ◽  
Albert Massabki ◽  
Lois Colle
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
The Past

Over the past 30 years much information has been collected on children whose parents suffer from psychiatric illness. Research has shown that many of these children are at high risk for significant psychopathology but there have been few investigations examining whether or not they are being identified and are receiving mental health care. The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate to what extent the children of psychiatrically ill adult patients are identified and referred to the mental health services. Results of structured interviews with the patients indicate that a considerable number had school-aged children and that in many instances no inquiry had been made concerning the children's psychological health. Although some of the children were reported to have received treatment, few had been referred by their parents’ psychiatrists. Recommendations to improve the identification and treatment of such children are outlined in this study.

scholarly journals Screening and Referral is Not Enough: A Qualitative Exploration of Barriers to Access and Uptake of Mental Health Services in Patients With Cardiovascular Diseases

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M Collopy ◽  
Suzanne M Cosh ◽  
Phillip J Tully
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Cardiac Events ◽  
Structured Interviews

Abstract Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are commonly comorbid with mental health disorders, portending poorer cardiac prognosis. Despite the high prevalence of depression and anxiety, and guidelines recommending routine depression screening and referral, uptake of mental healthcare in CVD populations remains low. Reasons for the underutilisation of mental health and psychological services for this population remain largely unknown.Methods: Thirteen CVD patients with clinically significant psychological symptoms (depression, anxiety and/or stress) participated in one-on-one in-depth semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis.Results: Barriers to uptake included the timing of referral and screening, with patients reporting a need for longer term follow-up. A lack of information provision and understanding around mental health and services, especially following cardiac-events were further barriers. A reluctance to report mental health or engage in services was also identified, with patients indicating a preference for informal peer support networks. A range of practical barriers such as mobility, transport and cost were also reported. Conclusions: Longer term follow-up and routine mental health assessment may be beneficial to facilitate use of mental health services. Upskilling of practitioners around mental health may be a further avenue to promote information provision and enhance service use. Further focus on enhancing informal peer support may be a valuable initial approach for the CVD population. The implications for improving services and enhancing service use are discussed.

scholarly journals Teaching-learning process from service teaching of mental health nursing: experience report

10.3823/2361 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Analine De Souza Bandeira Correia ◽  
Antonia Oliveira Silva ◽  
Rayhanna Queiroz De Oliveira ◽  
Ana Suerda Leonor Gomes Leal ◽  
Wilma Dias de Fontes Pereira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Experience Report ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Nursing Experience ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Teaching Learning

Objective: Describe the conceptions of resident nurses about the nurse's role in mental health services. Method: Descriptive/reflexive study of the experience-report type, carried out from experiences of nurses from the Multiprofessional Residency Program in Mental Health, guided by the theoretical presuppositions of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform and structured from the Arch of Charles Maguerez. Results: In-service teaching provided reflections on the residents' conceptions of nurses' performance in mental health services. The key posts were the insertion in the specific nursing care, the construction of the multiprofessional work process, the recognition of their professional identity. Therapeutic relationship and communication, receptiveness, co-responsibility of care and the construction of links with clients, family and work colleagues for the solution of the problems.  Conclusions: The Arch of Charles Maguerez facilitated the teaching process in service. In addition, it provided the perception of the action-reflection-action movement as essential to understand fundamentals of care practices in nursing and to collaborate to the insertion of the nurse and the process of changes, from the daily services of mental health.

‘Maybe a Maverick, Maybe a Parent, but Definitely Not an Honorary Nurse’: Social Worker Perspectives on the Role and Nature of Social Work in Mental Health Care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Tucker ◽  
Martin Webber
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Uk

Abstract In many places in the UK, social work is integral to mental health service delivery. Significant role erosion, however, has left the profession unclear about where it fits within modern mental health services. The 2016 Social Work for Better Mental Health initiative outlines five key mental health roles and has been adopted into national policy in England to combat this uncertainty, but the influence of this has not been explored. This study aimed to develop an understanding of how mental health social workers perceive and explain their role. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with seven social workers based within one English National Health Service mental health trust covering a large geographical area and their responses analysed using Ritchie, Spencer and O’Connor’s Framework thematic model. Findings indicated that social workers only superficially engaged with the aspirational policy roles, instead presenting their own framework for what makes mental health social work distinctive. This was constructed around the context and intentions of practice, rather than around proscribed tasks and responsibilities. This study has significance for individual social workers and for organisations providing and planning mental health services in the UK and beyond, given the influence that practitioner perceptions can have on how they undertake their roles.

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