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Developing psychosocial care: the development and evaluation of a short course which aims to introduce psychosocial interventions to inpatient staff
Author(s) -
Baker J. A.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2850.2000.00335.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , psychological intervention , nursing , medicine , psychology , medical education , psychiatry
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.