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Pandora Patterson1, Stephen Matthey, Martin Baker
1Sydney South West Area Health Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Objective:
To examine clinicians' use of Mental Health Outcomes and Assessment Tools (MH-OAT), standardized clinical measures that have been introduced in NSW.
Method:
Two separate studies are described, which examined the use of MH-OAT within two community child and family mental health service teams in Sydney.
Results:
It appears that clinicians are often not completing the clinician-rated measures and rarely were they requesting and/or following up clients to complete the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Further, while clinicians are reviewing the progress of their clients, they rarely use the MH-OAT data for this purpose.
Conclusions:
Clinicians' lack of adherence to MH-OAT and use of MH-OAT data are discussed in terms of passive resistance and their possible perception that the process is largely irrelevant to the care of their clients.
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