TY - JOUR
T1 - Competing Priorities
T2 - Staff Perspectives on Supporting Recovery
AU - Le Boutillier, Clair
AU - Slade, Mike
AU - Lawrence, Vanessa
AU - Bird, Victoria J.
AU - Chandler, Ruth
AU - Farkas, Marianne
AU - Harding, Courtenay
AU - Larsen, John
AU - Oades, Lindsay G.
AU - Roberts, Glenn
AU - Shepherd, Geoff
AU - Thornicroft, Graham
AU - Williams, Julie
AU - Leamy, Mary
PY - 2015/7/1
Y1 - 2015/7/1
N2 - Recovery has come to mean living a life beyond mental illness, and recovery orientation is policy in many countries. The aims of this study were to investigate what staff say they do to support recovery and to identify what they perceive as barriers and facilitators associated with providing recovery-oriented support. Data collection included ten focus groups with multidisciplinary clinicians (n = 34) and team leaders (n = 31), and individual interviews with clinicians (n = 18), team leaders (n = 6) and senior managers (n = 8). The identified core category was Competing Priorities, with staff identifying conflicting system priorities that influence how recovery-oriented practice is implemented. Three sub-categories were: Health Process Priorities, Business Priorities, and Staff Role Perception. Efforts to transform services towards a recovery orientation require a whole-systems approach.
AB - Recovery has come to mean living a life beyond mental illness, and recovery orientation is policy in many countries. The aims of this study were to investigate what staff say they do to support recovery and to identify what they perceive as barriers and facilitators associated with providing recovery-oriented support. Data collection included ten focus groups with multidisciplinary clinicians (n = 34) and team leaders (n = 31), and individual interviews with clinicians (n = 18), team leaders (n = 6) and senior managers (n = 8). The identified core category was Competing Priorities, with staff identifying conflicting system priorities that influence how recovery-oriented practice is implemented. Three sub-categories were: Health Process Priorities, Business Priorities, and Staff Role Perception. Efforts to transform services towards a recovery orientation require a whole-systems approach.
KW - Competing priorities
KW - Mental health service provision
KW - Recovery orientation
KW - Staff perspective
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905890244&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10488-014-0585-x
DO - 10.1007/s10488-014-0585-x
M3 - Article
SN - 0894-587X
VL - 42
SP - 429
EP - 438
JO - Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
JF - Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
IS - 4
ER -
