title: Investigating the efficacy of a whole team, psychologically informed, acute mental health service approach.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Service user demand and service changes, from hospital based, to community and hospital mix, within acute adult mental health services, focus the need for psychologically informed, holistic, approaches.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  (1) Describe and report feasibility of a psychologically led Intensive Support Programme (ISP) to meet this need. (2) Present results of a pilot evaluation of this programme.
  
  
  METHODS
  ISP was implemented in four acute mental health services of the Southern Health NHS Trust, available to both inpatient and outpatient acute services. Evaluation of the service one month after data collection, illustrates operation and level of uptake across different professional roles. The programme was evaluated by assessing psychological distress (CORE-10) and confidence in self-management (Mental Health Confidence Scale) of participating service users before and after intervention.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The service evaluation demonstrated extensive roll out of this programme across acute services of an extensive NHS Trust. Repeated measure t-tests demonstrated significant decrease in distress (p < 0.0005) and significant increase in confidence in self-management of mental health (p < 0.0005).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Evaluation shows that ISP can be delivered in routine care in an acute mental health service and results in improvement in self management skills and facilitation of recovery.
authors: a Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, St. Ann's Hospital, St. Ann's Hospital , Dorset Forensic Team , Poole , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Araci
authors: b Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust , Southampton , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
authors: Isabel
authors: I
authors: Clarke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Psychologically informed environment; acute mental health; formulation; inpatient and crisis services