title: Hope and improvements in mental health service providers' recovery attitudes following training.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Service providers' attitudes towards recovery can improve with formal training. However, it is unclear whether improvements depend on dispositional hope.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether attitudinal improvements following formal recovery training vary depending on participants' dispositional hope.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred and three providers attended formal recovery training and completed measures of recovery knowledge, attitudes, hopefulness and optimism.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Training improved providers' recovery knowledge, attitudes, hopefulness and optimism. Providers with both high and low dispositional hope achieved similar gains.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Attitudinal improvements following formal recovery training were not dependent on baseline levels of dispositional hope. Institutions committed to recovery-oriented care should consider utilizing formal training.
authors.affiliation: University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Janaka David
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Salgado
authors.forename: Frank P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Deane
authors.forename: Trevor P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Crowe
authors.forename: Lindsay G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Oades
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001315:Australia; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult