title: Improving the social validity and implementation of behaviour therapy training for psychiatric nurses using a patient-centred learning format.
abstract: Low levels of behavioural care plan implementation and criticisms of the format of an earlier 'classroom' course led to a patient-centred approach to training psychiatric nurses. The critical change involved a series of practical learning tasks with patients on the ward, leading to a single-subject care plan. The 24 psychiatric nurses attending the new course achieved superior results on two of the skill measures by post-testing. They also conducted more care plans and credited the course with more social validity than their predecessors (n = 41). These findings are important in showing how training formats can overcome institutional constraints on service innovation.
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*