Developing psychosocial care: the development and evaluation of a short course which aims to introduce psychosocial interventions to inpatient staff.
Following on from the author's previous article (Baker 2000) which emphasizes the need to develop psychosocial interventions within inpatient care, the author describes the process of developing and implementing a short course aiming to introduce psychosocial interventions to inpatient staff. The article also discusses the evaluation of this course and identifies some of the difficulties for acute staff in developing these skills.
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High Dependency Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Tameside General Hospital, Fountain Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, OL6 9RW, UK.
D000208:Acute Disease; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*