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D Carlyle1, M Crowe, D Deering
1Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand. dave.carlyle@otago.ac.nz
Abstract:
The aim of this study was to identify the conceptual models that underpin mental health nursing care in clinical settings. This study is a modification of a previous study which evaluated the influence of implicit models of mental disorder on processes of decision making within community-based teams. Participants completed questionnaires in response to a scenario. A range of explanatory conceptual models were identified in respect to aetiology, treatment and recovery. In a forced choice the participants ranked a medical model of care above other models as underpinning care delivery. The content analysis found that the participants used a psychodynamic framework for understanding the causes of mental distress but described the nursing interventions in terms of supporting a medical model of care. Nursing care is dominated by a medical model which constrains mental health nursing. This potentially creates tension between what nurses believe to be the problem and the responses available for nurses in their clinical setting. A range of psychosocial approaches to mental health care delivery have been developed, but there seems to be problems with their implementation in practice. Further research is required to explore how broader therapeutic interventions can be implemented by nurses within multidisciplinary systems of mental health care delivery.
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