The Family Experience of the Crisis of Involuntary Treatment in Mental Health

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Marianne Wyder, Robert Bland, Karen McCann and David Crompton. (2018). The Family Experience of the Crisis of Involuntary Treatment in Mental Health. Australian Social Work. 71(3), pp. 319-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2018.1454484
AuthorsMarianne Wyder, Robert Bland, Karen McCann and David Crompton
Abstract

While policy and practice standards emphasise the importance of engaging and supporting families of people with mental health problems, many families have reported feeling unsupported and distanced from treatment and care planning in acute inpatient units. There has been little systematic interest in the changing role and experiences of families throughout the emergence of illness, crisis, seeking of treatment, and subsequent recovery. Nineteen in-depth interviews were conducted with the next of kin of 17 people who had been admitted under an Involuntary Treatment Order in a large metropolitan hospital in the Brisbane region. A general inductive approach was used to analyse the data. While hospital admission was described as a time where, ideally, families were able to let go of being responsible for their relative's behaviour and let the health care professionals take over, for many this did not occur. We suggest four critical elements for providing recovery-oriented support to families. These include: (a) ensuring that families feel that their relative is safe and receiving the care needed; (b) keeping the family informed about their relative's progress; (c) ensuring families have access to information about the mental health system, and (d) working in partnership with the families.

Year2018
JournalAustralian Social Work
Journal citation71 (3), pp. 319-331
PublisherRoutledge
ISSN0312-407X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2018.1454484
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