Development of family interventions:
a 9-month pilot study

Murphy, NA

Abstract

This article outlines the introduction and development of a team
of like-minded people utilizing family interventions (FIs) in a NHS
Trust. FIs can be described as therapy sessions for families of people
experiencing psychosis, which involve the family, client and therapist.
The sessions focus on key elements, such as engagement and
assessment, psycho-education, communication skills, problem-solving
and relapse prevention. Through this focus, problems are analysed and
ultimately the interventions are decided and agreed upon. The analysis
of the team utilizing FIs in a NHS Trust raises many questions,
identifies problems encountered in its conception and highlights
managerial difficulties that occurred when trying to balance caseload
demands and something envisaged as resource- and time-hungry. The
Trust, however, views FIs as one of the ways of addressing part of the
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2002) guidelines,
Schizophrenia: Core Interventions in the Treatment of Schizophrenia in Primary
and Secondary Care, and lately, Organising and Delivering Psychological
Therapies (Department of Health, 2004), and are keen to improve the
quality of the service user and carer experience.

Citation

a 9-month pilot study. British Journal of Nursing, 16(15), 948-952

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Aug 9, 2007
• Deposit Date: Jun 26, 2012
• Journal: British Journal of Nursing
• Print ISSN: 0966-0461
• Publisher: MA Healthcare
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 15
• Pages: 948-952
• Publisher URL: http://www.britishjournalofnursing.com/