Layers of listening: A qualitative analysis of the impact of early intervention services for first-episode psychosis on carers’ experiences

Lavis, Anna, Lester, Helen, Everard, Linda, Freemantle, Nicholas, Amos, Tim, Fowler, David, Hodgekins, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4124-854X, Jones, Peter, Marshall, Max, Sharma, Vimal, Larsen, John, McCrone, Paul, Singh, Swaran, Smith, Jo and Birchwood, Max (2015) Layers of listening: A qualitative analysis of the impact of early intervention services for first-episode psychosis on carers’ experiences. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 207 (2). pp. 135-142. ISSN 1472-1465

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Abstract

Aims: By analysing carers’ accounts of their daily lives and affective challenges during a relative’s FEP against the background of wider research into EIS, this paper explores relationships between carers’ experiences and EIS. Method: Semi-structured longitudinal interviews with 80 carers of young people with FEP treated through English EIS. Results: Our data suggest that EIS successfully aid carers to support their relatives, particularly through the provision of knowledge about psychosis and medications. However, paradoxical ramifications of these user-focused engagements also emerge; they risk leaving carers’ emotions unacknowledged and compounding an existing lack of help-seeking. Conclusions: By focusing on EIS’s engagements with carers, this paper draws attention to an urgent broader question: as a continuing emphasis on care outside the clinic space places family members at the heart of the care of those with severe mental illness, we ask: who can, and should, support carers, and in what ways?

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Mental Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Mental Health and Social Care (fka Lifespan Health)
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2015 11:24
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2026 06:27
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/52058
DOI:	10.1192/bjp.bp.114.146415

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