title: Staff views on wellbeing for themselves and for service users.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Wellbeing is an important outcome in the context of recovery from mental illness. The views of mental health professionals on wellbeing may influence their approach to supporting recovery.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study aims to explore views held by mental health staff about factors influencing their own wellbeing and that of service users with psychosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 mental health staff in South London who had worked with people with psychosis. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data and comparisons were made between staff views of wellbeing for themselves and service users.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Staff participants held similar conceptualisations of wellbeing for themselves and for service users. However, they suggested a differential impact on wellbeing for a number of factors, such as balance, goals and achievement, and work. Staff employed a more deficit-based perspective on wellbeing for service users and a more strengths-based view for themselves.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Staff stated a recovery orientation in principle, but struggled to focus on service user strengths in practice. A stronger emphasis in clinical practice on amplifying strengths to foster self-management is indicated, and staff may need support to achieve this emphasis, e.g. through specific interventions and involvement of peer support workers.
authors.affiliation: Health Service and Population Research Department, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (Box P029) , De Crespigny Park, London , UK and.
authors.forename: Beate
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schrank
authors.forename: Tamsin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Brownell
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Riches
authors.forename: Agnes
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chevalier
authors.forename: Zivile
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jakaite
authors.forename: Charley
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Larkin
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lawrence
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Slade
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Psychosis; qualitative; recovery; staff; wellbeing