Decision making in mental health team meetings
Background: Single point of access meetings represent a critical juncture in the lives of mental health clients. The decision-making process undertaken by mental health professionals during this time is therefore crucial. Method: Glaserian grounded theory, with observations and interviews through...
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| author | Narayanasamy, Melanie Jay |
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| description | Background: Single point of access meetings represent a critical juncture in the lives of mental health clients. The decision-making process undertaken by mental health professionals during this time is therefore crucial.
Method: Glaserian grounded theory, with observations and interviews through theoretical sampling, was used to investigate the decision making of attendees.
Findings: A basic social process named handling role boundaries emerged, consisting of four phases: recognising, positioning, weighing up and balancing.
Conclusion: Handling role boundaries is an innovative, sociological theory that allows conceptual understanding to show how personality traits contribute to the discussions and decisions, as well as professional roles. These need to be managed effectively to make decisions in a limited time frame. Handling role boundaries explains how this is done in a local mental health trust. |
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| spelling | nottingham-402292020-05-04T17:42:24Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40229/ Decision making in mental health team meetings Narayanasamy, Melanie Jay Background: Single point of access meetings represent a critical juncture in the lives of mental health clients. The decision-making process undertaken by mental health professionals during this time is therefore crucial. Method: Glaserian grounded theory, with observations and interviews through theoretical sampling, was used to investigate the decision making of attendees. Findings: A basic social process named handling role boundaries emerged, consisting of four phases: recognising, positioning, weighing up and balancing. Conclusion: Handling role boundaries is an innovative, sociological theory that allows conceptual understanding to show how personality traits contribute to the discussions and decisions, as well as professional roles. These need to be managed effectively to make decisions in a limited time frame. Handling role boundaries explains how this is done in a local mental health trust. RCN Publishing 2016-03-09 Article PeerReviewed Narayanasamy, Melanie Jay (2016) Decision making in mental health team meetings. Mental Health Practice, 19 (6). pp. 32-38. ISSN 1465-8720 Mental health; Multidisciplinary team meetings; Role boundaries; Grounded theory; Glaserian grounded theory; Sociology http://journals.rcni.com/doi/abs/10.7748/mhp.19.6.32.s21 doi:10.7748/mhp.19.6.32.s21 doi:10.7748/mhp.19.6.32.s21 |
| spellingShingle | Mental health; Multidisciplinary team meetings; Role boundaries; Grounded theory; Glaserian grounded theory; Sociology Narayanasamy, Melanie Jay Decision making in mental health team meetings |
| title | Decision making in mental health team meetings |
| title_full | Decision making in mental health team meetings |
| title_fullStr | Decision making in mental health team meetings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Decision making in mental health team meetings |
| title_short | Decision making in mental health team meetings |
| title_sort | decision making in mental health team meetings |
| topic | Mental health; Multidisciplinary team meetings; Role boundaries; Grounded theory; Glaserian grounded theory; Sociology |
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