Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rdxmf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-23T00:31:54.695Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Teamworking Challenges of Care Planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Patrick McHugh  and
Micheal Byrne
Patrick McHugh
Affiliation:
Roscommon Integrated, Service, HSE West, Ireland
Micheal Byrne*
Affiliation:
RoscommonIntegrated Services, HSE West, Ireland
*
*Correspondence E-mail: michaelj.byrne@hse.ie
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Background: Care planning is a multidisciplinary process used to develop an individualised recovery plan for each service user. The success of this process will depend on the extent to which members of mental health teams can work with one another, with service users, and with other service providers in developing a coordinated plan that meets service user needs across multiple domains.

Aims: This paper examined the teamworking challenges that Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) face during the care planning process and how such challenges may be managed.

Method: A narrative review of published articles and policy documents relevant to teamworking and recovery-focused care planning within mental health teams.

Findings: Teamworking challenges include the provision of integrated rather than fragmented care, the empowerment of the service user, and development of a distributed model of leadership, responsibility and decision making.

Conclusions: CMHTs face a range of substantial but manageable challenges in attempting to implement recovery-focused care planning. Recommendations include the need to integrate recovery-orientated skills and values into professional training, the need for greater multidisciplinary training opportunities, and the need to evaluate CMHTs based on recovery-orientated criteria.

Keywords

Teamworkcare planningmultidisciplinary collaboration.
Type
Brief Report
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , 2012 , pp. 185 - 189
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1.Department of Health and Children. A Vision for Change: Report of the Expert Group on Mental Health Policy. Dublin: Stationery Office; 2006: 81.Google Scholar
2.Anthony, WA. A recovery-oriented service system: Setting some system level standards. Psychiatr Rehabil J 2000; 24(2): 159–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3.Jacobson, N, Curtis, L. Recovery as policy in mental health services: Strategies emerging from the states. Psychiatr Rehabil J 2000; 23(4): 333–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4.de Burca, S, Armstrong, C, Bronson, P. Community Mental Health Teams: Determinants of Effectiveness in an Irish Context. Limerick: Health Systems Research Centre; 2010.Google Scholar
5.Singh, SP. Running an effective mental health team. Adv in Psychiatric Treatment 2000; 6: 414–22.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
6.Mental Health Commission. The Recovery Approach within the Irish Mental Health Services: A Framework for Development. Dublin: Mental Health Commission; 2008.Google Scholar
7.Begley, CM. Developing inter-professional learning: Tactics, teamwork and talk. Nurse Educ Today 2009; 29(3): 276–83.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
8.Warne, T, Stark, S. Service users, metaphors and teamworking in mental health. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 2004; 11(6): 654–61.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
9.Rosen, A, Callaly, T. Interdisciplinary teamwork and leadership: issues for psychiatrists. Aust Psychiatry 2005; 13(3): 234–40.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
10.Byrne, M, Onyett, S. Teamwork within Mental Health Services in Ireland. Dublin: Mental Health Commission; 2010.Google Scholar
11.Jones, A. Multidisciplinary team working: collaboration and conflict. Int J Ment Health Nurs 2006; 15: 19–28.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
12.Belling, R, Whittock, M, McLaren, S, Burns, T, Catty, J, Jones, IR, et al.Achieving Continuity of Care: Facilitators and Barriers in Community Mental Health Teams. Implementation Sci 2011; 6.Google Scholar
13.Norman, IJ, Peck, E. Working together in adult community mental health services: An interprofessional dialogue. J Ment Health 1999; 8(3): 217–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
14.Rapaport, J, Manthorpe, J. Family matters: developments concerning the role of the nearest relative and social worker under mental health law in England and Wales. Br J Social Work 2008; 38: 1115–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
15.Collins, P, Byrne, M. A call to co-ordinate mental health teams. The Ir Psychol 2011; 37(8): 212–6.Google Scholar
16.Ovretveit, J. Planning and managing teams. Health & Social Care in the Community 1997; 5(4): 269–76.Google Scholar
17.Rosen, A. New roles for old: the role of the psychiatrist in the interdisciplinary team. Aust Psychiatry 2001; 9(2): 133–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
18.Mathisen, G, Einarsen, S, Jørstad, K, Brønnick, S. Climate for work group creativity and innovation: Norwegian validation of the team climate inventory (TCI). Scand J of Psych 2004; 45: 383–92.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
19.Wilson, V, Pirrie, A. Multidisciplinary Teamwork Indicators of Good Practice. Edinburgh: Scottish Council for Research in Education, 2000.Google Scholar
20.Anthony, P, Crawford, P. Service user involvement in care planning: the mental health nurse's perspective. J Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs 2000; 7(5): 425–34.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
21.Mickan, SM, Rodger, S. Effective health care teams: A shared model of six characteristics developed from shared perceptions. J Interprof Care 2005; 19(4): 358–70.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
22.Lankshear, AJ. Coping with conflict and confusing agendas in multidisciplinary community mental health teams. J Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs 2003; 10: 457–64.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
23.Clark, J. On the Bounce: Understanding Mental Health Systems in the North West. NHS North West: Commission on Mental Health Services; 2008.Google Scholar
24.Borrill, C, West, M, Shapiro, D, Rees, A. Team working and effectiveness in health care. Br J of Health Care Manag 2000; 6(8): 354–371.Google Scholar
25.Department of Health and Children. Building a Culture of Patient Safety: Report on the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance. Dublin: Stationery Office; 2008.Google Scholar
26.Mental Health Commission. Quality Framework: Mental Health Services in Ireland. Dublin: Mental Health Commission; 2007.Google Scholar
27.Coulter, A. The NHS revolution: health care in the market place - What do patients and the public want from primary care? Br Med J 2005; 331(7526): 1199–1201.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
28.Simpson, A. The impact of team processes on psychiatric case management. J of Adv Nurs 2007; 60(4): 409–18.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
29.Janis, IL, Victims of Groupthink. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1982.Google Scholar
30.Ovretveit, J. Team decision-making. J of Interprof Care 1995; 9: 41–51.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
31.Elstad, TA, Eide, AH. User participation in community mental health services: exploring the experiences of users and professionals. Scand J of Caring Sci 2009; 23(4): 674–681.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
32.Davidson, L, O'Connell, M, Tondora, J, Styron, T, Kangas, K. The top ten concerns about recovery encountered in mental health system transformation. Psychiatric Serv 2006; 57(5): 640–5.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
33.Hamann, J, Leucht, S, Kissling, W. Shared decision making in psychiatry. Acta Psychiatrica Scand 2003; 107: 403–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
34.Deegan, PE. Recovering our sense of value after being labelled mentally ill. J of Psychosoc Nurs 1993; 31: 7–11.Google ScholarPubMed
35.Perkins, RE, Repper, JM. Compliance or informed choice. J of Ment Health 1999; 8(2): 117–29.Google Scholar
36.Schwartz, B. The Paradox of Choice. New York: Ecco/Harper Collins; 2004.Google Scholar
37.Pelled, LH. Demographic diversity, conflict, and work group outcomes: An intervening process theory. Organ Sci 1996; 7(6): 615–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
38.Onyett, S, Standen, R, Peck, E. The challenge of managing community mental health teams. Health and Social Care in the Community 1997; 5: 40–7.Google Scholar
39.Higgins, A, Maguire, G, Watts, M, Creaner, M, McCann, E, Rani, S, et al.Service user involvement in mental health practitioner education in Ireland. J Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs 2011; 18(6): 519–25.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
40.Herrman, H, Trauer, T, Warnock, J, Professional Liaison Committee. The roles and relationships of psychiatrists and other service providers in mental health. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2002; 36(1): 75–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
41.Cooper, H, Carlisle, C, Gibbs, T, Watkins, C. Developing an evidence base for interdisciplinary learning: a systematic review. J of Adv Nurs 2001; 35(2): 228–37.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
42.Irish College of General Practitioners. Team-based approaches to supporting mental health in primary care settings. [serial online] 2011; Available from http://www.icgp.ie/go/archive/6C6AD260-19B9-E185-8331B9561FD5F4AF.htmlGoogle Scholar
43.Reeves, S, Freeth, D. Re-examining the evaluation of interprofessional education for community mental health teams with a different lens: understanding presage, process and product factors. J of Psychiatric and Ment Health Nurs 2006; 13(6): 765–70.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
44.Roncalli, S, Byrne, M, Onyett, S. Psychometric properties of a Mental Health Team Development Audit Tool. J of Ment Health (submitted).Google Scholar