TY - JOUR
KW - Attitude of Health Personnel
KW - Community Mental Health Services/manpower/standards
KW - Continuity of Patient Care
KW - Cultural Diversity
KW - Focus Groups
KW - Great Britain
KW - Humans
KW - Inservice Training
KW - Needs Assessment
KW - Patient Care Team/standards
KW - Professional Competence
KW - Questionnaires
KW - Rural Health Services
KW - Social Work, Psychiatric/education/manpower/standards
KW - Staff Development
AU - J. Secker
AU - K. Hill
A1 - 
AB - Emphasis has long been placed in UK national policy on providing 'seamless' mental health services to meet both the health and social care needs of service users. While attention has been paid to the training required by specialist mental health and primary care staff in order to achieve this, the needs of other community agency staff have received less attention. The present article describes a study designed to identify the training needs of staff working within a broad range of agencies. Focus group discussions were used to explore participants' experiences of mental health problems amongst clients, their confidence in dealing with these, current sources of support and perceived training needs. The results indicate that participants in all agencies routinely encountered a range of problems. Colleagues were the main source of support, followed by line managers, but supervision structures and wider organisational support were lacking in some cases. Joint working with specialist mental health services was almost universally problematic and all groups identified a range of training needs. On the basis of the results, the present authors put forward suggestions as to how these needs might be met.
BT - Health & social care in the community
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 5
CY - England
IS - 5
JF - Health & social care in the community
N2 - Emphasis has long been placed in UK national policy on providing 'seamless' mental health services to meet both the health and social care needs of service users. While attention has been paid to the training required by specialist mental health and primary care staff in order to achieve this, the needs of other community agency staff have received less attention. The present article describes a study designed to identify the training needs of staff working within a broad range of agencies. Focus group discussions were used to explore participants' experiences of mental health problems amongst clients, their confidence in dealing with these, current sources of support and perceived training needs. The results indicate that participants in all agencies routinely encountered a range of problems. Colleagues were the main source of support, followed by line managers, but supervision structures and wider organisational support were lacking in some cases. Joint working with specialist mental health services was almost universally problematic and all groups identified a range of training needs. On the basis of the results, the present authors put forward suggestions as to how these needs might be met.
PP - England
PY - 2002
SN - 0966-0410; 0966-0410
SP - 323
EP - 330
EP - 
T1 - Mental health training and development needs of community agency staff
T2 - Health & social care in the community
TI - Mental health training and development needs of community agency staff
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 12390218
VL - 10
VO - 0966-0410; 0966-0410
Y1 - 2002
ER -