Assessing risk:professional perspectives on work involving mental health and child care services

Barbour, Rosaline S, Stanley, Nicky, Penhale, Bridget ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8487-0606 and Holden, Sue (2002) Assessing risk:professional perspectives on work involving mental health and child care services. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 16 (4). pp. 323-34. ISSN 1356-1820

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Abstract

The assessment of risk is central to work with families where parental mental health needs and child care concerns coexist. This article reports on the findings of three interprofessional focus groups which examined professionals' experiences of working with such families. Specialisation and differing thresholds and codes were identified as factors which contributed to difficulties for practitioners and families and scepticism was expressed concerning the feasibility of a key worker system for this group. The issue of psychiatric diagnosis evoked ambivalent responses and was both valued as offering direction for planning interventions and seen as a means of labelling and excluding individuals from services. The focus group participants were aware that assessing risk placed families under considerable pressure, but practitioners themselves also appeared to experience an emphasis on risk as restrictive.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	adult,attitude of health personnel,child,child health services,community health nursing,family health,focus groups,great britain,health facility administrators,humans,mental health services,needs assessment,parents,patient care team,psychiatric nursing,psychiatry,risk assessment,social work,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
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UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Improving Access to Care (former - to 2017) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health in Later Life (former - to 2017) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Dementia & Complexity in Later Life
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2014 14:28
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 05:54
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/47029
DOI:	10.1080/1356182021000008256

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