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New Advances in Mental Health Services: Recovery-Oriented Practice Approaches and Co-production

A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 3050

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Melissa Petrakis

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Guest Editor
Department of Social Work, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3145, Australia
Interests: mental health; mental health services; co-design; co-production
Caroline Walters

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Guest Editor Assistant
SWITCH Research Group, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3145, Australia
Interests: co-production; relational approaches to mental health service provision; social determinants of mental health
Janice Chisholm

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Guest Editor Assistant
SWITCH Research Group & Eastern Health, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3145, Australia
Interests: mental health; recovery-oriented practice; co-design and co-production; stigma; discrimination; social determinants of health; ethics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

There is a growing appreciation internationally of the role social determinants of health play in social disadvantage, mental ill health, and psychological and emotional distress. In mental health services, there is a call to clinical leaders for a shift in emphasis to service development, through an awareness of the need to change power relationships, acting in a spirit of allyship. If more fully realised, this would represent a genuine transformation in mental health services internationally. The fostering of service user and family carer perspectives, voice, roles and collaboration—indeed, their emerging leadership—is central to this change. A movement towards authentic co-design and co-production will be pivotal to the change process. This Special Issue aims to contribute to advancing the literature on recovery-oriented approaches and co-production already taking place in modest pockets in mental health services. We therefore welcome theoretical, critical and/or empirical practice contributions that broaden knowledge on those factors, processes and mechanisms that are leading to and can lead to advances in mental health services, particularly those elevating and articulating what is happening and what is required for system and cultural reform intentions to be realised.

Dr. Melissa Petrakis
Guest Editor

Caroline Walters
Janice Chisholm
Guest Editor Assistants

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Keywords

  • mental health services
  • co-design
  • co-production
  • service user leadership
  • family carer leadership
  • practice-based research
  • clinician perspectives
  • allyship
  • participatory methodologies
  • cooperative inquiry

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Staff Perspectives in Mental Health Research Regarding Restrictive Interventions: An Australian Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis
by Jacinta Chavulak, Terry Smyth, Nicholas Sutcliffe and Melissa Petrakis
Behav. Sci. 2024, 14(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14010009 - 22 Dec 2023
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Service users and their families have raised concerns about safety in current acute mental health service delivery. Restrictive interventions are routinely used across mental health settings despite increasing awareness of the negative impacts. Underfunding and risk-averse management practices are implicated as key challenges. [...] Read more.
Service users and their families have raised concerns about safety in current acute mental health service delivery. Restrictive interventions are routinely used across mental health settings despite increasing awareness of the negative impacts. Underfunding and risk-averse management practices are implicated as key challenges. Utilizing a scoping review and thematic analysis method, this review explored the existing literature of mental health staff perspectives across various settings (including psychiatric wards and emergency departments), focusing on their experience of restrictive interventions. Four themes were developed: 1. Safety (both staff and patient); 2. Barriers to staff reducing their restrictive interventions; 3. Strength in current practice; 4. Recommendations for change. Key gaps in the literature were the limited perspectives of emergency and crisis clinicians (despite these areas being settings where restrictive interventions are utilized) and limited perspectives from allied health disciplines (despite their employment as clinicians in these settings). It also noted a divide between staff and patient safety, as though these concerns are mutually exclusive rather than cooccurring, which is the experienced reality. Advocacy bodies, governments and the media are calling for a reduction in restrictive interventions in crisis settings. This research synthesis proposes that, to achieve this, clinical staff must be involved in the process and their perspectives actively sought and drawn upon to enable reform. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Mental Health Services: Recovery-Oriented Practice Approaches and Co-production)
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