Working with families affected by mental distress: stakeholders' perceptions of mental health nurses educational needs
Family and informal caregivers provide a substantial amount of care and support to people who experience mental health problems. The aim of this study was to explore mental health nurses’, students’ and service users’ perceptions of the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are required by mental hea...
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| author | Keogh, Brian Skärsäter, Ingela Doyle, Luoise Ellilä, Heikki Jormfeldt, Henrika Lahti, Mari Higgins, Agnes Meade, Oonagh Sitvast, Jan Stickley, Theodore Kilkku, Nina |
| author_facet | Keogh, Brian Skärsäter, Ingela Doyle, Luoise Ellilä, Heikki Jormfeldt, Henrika Lahti, Mari Higgins, Agnes Meade, Oonagh Sitvast, Jan Stickley, Theodore Kilkku, Nina |
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| description | Family and informal caregivers provide a substantial amount of care and support to people who experience mental health problems. The aim of this study was to explore mental health nurses’, students’ and service users’ perceptions of the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are required by mental health nurses to work with families and carers using a qualitative methodology. Three themes emerged from the data: Knowledge of the family and how mental distress affects the family; Working with the family – support and education and Valuing the role of the family. The three themes demonstrate the complexity of preparing mental health nurses to work with families and carers and the paper offers recommendations about how this might be achieved. |
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| spelling | nottingham-515032020-05-04T19:23:10Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51503/ Working with families affected by mental distress: stakeholders' perceptions of mental health nurses educational needs Keogh, Brian Skärsäter, Ingela Doyle, Luoise Ellilä, Heikki Jormfeldt, Henrika Lahti, Mari Higgins, Agnes Meade, Oonagh Sitvast, Jan Stickley, Theodore Kilkku, Nina Family and informal caregivers provide a substantial amount of care and support to people who experience mental health problems. The aim of this study was to explore mental health nurses’, students’ and service users’ perceptions of the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are required by mental health nurses to work with families and carers using a qualitative methodology. Three themes emerged from the data: Knowledge of the family and how mental distress affects the family; Working with the family – support and education and Valuing the role of the family. The three themes demonstrate the complexity of preparing mental health nurses to work with families and carers and the paper offers recommendations about how this might be achieved. Informa Healthcare 2017-12-17 Article PeerReviewed Keogh, Brian, Skärsäter, Ingela, Doyle, Luoise, Ellilä, Heikki, Jormfeldt, Henrika, Lahti, Mari, Higgins, Agnes, Meade, Oonagh, Sitvast, Jan, Stickley, Theodore and Kilkku, Nina (2017) Working with families affected by mental distress: stakeholders' perceptions of mental health nurses educational needs. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 38 (10). pp. 822-828. ISSN 0161-2840 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01612840.2017.1341587 doi:10.1080/01612840.2017.1341587 doi:10.1080/01612840.2017.1341587 |
| spellingShingle | Keogh, Brian Skärsäter, Ingela Doyle, Luoise Ellilä, Heikki Jormfeldt, Henrika Lahti, Mari Higgins, Agnes Meade, Oonagh Sitvast, Jan Stickley, Theodore Kilkku, Nina Working with families affected by mental distress: stakeholders' perceptions of mental health nurses educational needs |
| title | Working with families affected by mental distress: stakeholders' perceptions of mental health nurses educational needs |
| title_full | Working with families affected by mental distress: stakeholders' perceptions of mental health nurses educational needs |
| title_fullStr | Working with families affected by mental distress: stakeholders' perceptions of mental health nurses educational needs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Working with families affected by mental distress: stakeholders' perceptions of mental health nurses educational needs |
| title_short | Working with families affected by mental distress: stakeholders' perceptions of mental health nurses educational needs |
| title_sort | working with families affected by mental distress: stakeholders' perceptions of mental health nurses educational needs |
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