scholarly journals The Accordion and the Deep Bowl of Spaghetti: Eight Researchers' Experiences of Using IPA as a Methodology

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Wagstaff ◽  
Hyeseung Jeong ◽  
Maeve Nolan ◽  
Tony Wilson ◽  
Julie Tweedlie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
In Vitro Fertilisation ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Cord Injury ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

Since 1996 Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) has grown rapidly and been applied in areas outside its initial “home” of health psychology. However, explorations of its application from a researcher's perspective are scarce. This paper provides reflections on the experiences of eight individual researchers using IPA in diverse disciplinary fields and cultures. The research studies were conducted in the USA, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the UK by researchers with backgrounds in business management, consumer behaviour, mental health nursing, nurse education, applied linguistics, clinical psychology, health and education. They variously explored media awareness, employee commitment, disengagement from mental health services, in-vitro fertilisation treatment, student nurses' experience of child protection, second language acquisition in a university context, the male experience of spinal cord injury and academics experience of working in higher education and women’s experiences of body size and health practices. By bringing together intercultural, interdisciplinary experiences of using IPA, the paper discusses perceived strengths and weaknesses of IPA.

scholarly journals Men report good mental health 20 to 23 years after in vitro fertilisation treatment

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunilla Sydsjö ◽  
Josefin Vikström ◽  
Marie Bladh ◽  
Barbara Jablonowska ◽  
Agneta Skoog Svanberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
In Vitro Fertilisation ◽  
Good Mental Health ◽  
Fertilisation Treatment

Integrating Mental Health Services through Reimbursement Reform and Managed Mental Health Care

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mechanic
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Integration Of Services ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

People with serious and persistent mental illness require a range of community services typically provided by different specialized agencies. At the clinical level, assertive team case management is the strategy commonly used to achieve integration of services across specialized sectors. The USA also has used various financial and organizational approaches to reduce fragmentation and increase effectiveness, including development of stronger public mental health authorities, use of financial incentives to change professional and institutional behavior, requirements to allocate savings from hospital closures to community systems of care, and introduction of mental health managed care on a broad scale. These approaches have potential but also significant problems and there is often a large gap between theory and implementation. These US developments are discussed with attention to the implications for mental health services in the UK.

Mental health nursing in a rehabilitation and recovery context

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Psychiatric Facility ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk

In this chapter we return to the story of Anthony and his brother David, who we originally met in Chapter 4, and Joyce, who first appears in Chapter 5. Previously we considered the role of the mental health nurse in working with people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This chapter seeks to consider how as mental health nurses we might go on to work with these people to support their rehabilitation and reintegration into the community. The chapter opens by outlining some key principles of recovery and proceeds to demonstrate how these ideas might be implemented in working with both Anthony and Joyce. “The way I was feeling my sadness was mine. When I was in hospital staff rarely took time to find out what this was like for me. Not taking the time often fuelled what I was thinking: ‘I’m not worth finding out about.’ Nigel Short (2007: 23)” This service user describes how it feels to live with mental illness continuously throughout their lives, not just while they are in hospital. Professional staff may contribute to this feeling if care planning becomes too focused upon symptoms and treatment rather than person-centred care and recovery. In this context, recovery should not be seen as a new concept; rather it can be traced back at least 200 years to one of the earliest asylums, the Tuke Retreat in Yorkshire. “For it was a critical appraisal of psychiatric practice that inspired the Tuke at York to establish a clinical philosophy and therapeutic practice based on kindness, compassion, respect and hope of recovery. Roberts and Wolfson (2004: 37).” Later, during the 1960s, The Vermont Project (an American psychiatric facility) also published research on successful rehabilitative practice that was based upon ‘faith, hope and love’ (Eldred et al. 1962: 45). However, much of the current focus upon recovery practices is based on longitudinal studies in America, services in Ohio, service users were asked to identify what was important to them. This resulted in the Emerging Best Practices document that is recommended guidance in the UK today (NIMHE 2004).

scholarly journals Exploring men's attitudes to mental fitness through sportspeople's lived experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-180
Author(s):  
Sarah Elizabeth Cooper ◽  
Sarah Parry ◽  
Maria Livanou ◽  
Daniel Sculthorpe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Mental Fitness ◽  
Health Nursing

An interpretative phenomenological analysis sought to explore how male audience members experienced listening to mental health nurses alongside sportspeople who shared their lived stories of mental health problems in public through mental fitness sessions carried out by the mental health charity, State of Mind Sport. Six male participants were interviewed about their experience after attending an mental fitness session. Three superordinate themes emerged: ‘Evolving male openness about mental health’ looks at how the male audience members' perspective on being open about their mental health changed having been to the mental fitness session. Second, ‘Sportspeople's influence’ reflects upon the positive influence sportspeople's involvement in the mental fitness sessions has on male audience members. Finally, ‘The process of learning about mental health’ explores the educational impact the sessions appear to be having. The results demonstrated the mental fitness sessions had a positive impact and using sportspeople can improve mental health interventions with males and this has potential implications for mental health nursing interventions.

scholarly journals Community work – a cure for stigma and social exclusion?

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 281-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Mental Health Providers ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Cost

SummaryIt is possible to tackle exclusion by altering the nature of transactions between individuals and groups, including mental health services. One way to do this is to cultivate ‘social capital’ or interdependence between individuals and groups – as well as giving, each is entitled, but not compelled, to claim something in return. It is difficult, if not impossible, to sustain stigma and social exclusion when people are meeting mutual needs, building trust and helping each other. Mental health providers can foster social capital by creating community cohesion, namely interdependent relationships between individuals and organisations. This approach has been put into practice in the USA, where providers assert that small investments in building social capital return many times the cost. In the UK there is evidence that community development can make a contribution to mental health but it does not fit well with conventional approaches to mental health services – it calls for different skills and a vision that is collective rather than individualised.

Geographical Resource Allocation for Public Mental Health Services in Victoria

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Meadows
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

Objective:To provide background information on the approach of area based funding models for mental health services, to describe the considerations which have come to bear in the development process of the Victorian model, to explore the impacts of different models, and to suggest courses for further development. Method:The history of this approach to funding in the UK and the USA is summarised, then an account is given of the development of the Victorian model. The position is put that the validation of such models is hampered by having only sparse relevant data. Suggestions are made for improving this situation. Results:The Victorian model has come to include adjustments for socioeconomic disadvantage, the age, sex and marital status structure of the population, and a variable discounting for estimated substitutive activity of the private sector. Different methods of combining these adjustments into a working formula can be seen to have very different impacts. Conclusions:The approach taken in development of this model can be expected to have major influence on funding within Victoria, but also more widely in Australia. The impacts of differing assumptions within these models are significant. Specifically targeted epidemiological research, and activity analysis of the private sector will be necessary to enhance the validity of models of this type.

Multi-professional approved clinicians’ contribution to clinical leadership

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selma Ebrahim
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Distributed Leadership ◽  
Patient Choice ◽  
Clinical Psychologist ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Clinical Leadership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mental Health Settings ◽  
The Uk

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how multi-professional approved clinicians (MPACs), responsible for the care of patients detained under the Mental Health Act (2007), can enable clinical leadership in mental health settings. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was completed by clinical psychology and mental health nursing practitioners in a mental health trust in the UK working towards or having gained approved clinician (AC) status, identifying barriers to implementation of the roles and enablers. Qualitative interview data were also gathered with psychiatrists, clinical psychologist and Mental Health Nurse ACs (three in each group). Findings There are a number of barriers and enablers of distributed leadership promoted by the MPAC role. Themes identified focused on enabling person-centred care, clinical leadership and culture change more broadly within mental health care. The AC role is supporting clinical leadership by a range of professionals, promoting patient choice by enabling access to clinicians with the appropriate skills to meet needs. Clinical leadership roles are promoting links between organisational priorities, teams and patient care, fostering distributed leadership in practice. Research limitations/implications This project reflects the views of a limited number of practitioners within one organisation which limits generalisabilty. Practical implications Organisations need clear strategies linked to workforce development and implementation of the roles to capitalise on their potential to support clinical leadership and person-centred care. Originality/value This study provides initial qualitative data on potential benefits and challenges of implementing the role.

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