"Attitudes to voices": a survey exploring the factors influencing clinicians' intention to assess distressing voices and attitudes towards working with young people who hear voices.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Due to the general psychopathological vulnerability of young people who hear distressing voices, research has stressed the importance for clinicians to assess this experience in youth. Nonetheless, the limited literature on the topic comes from studies with clinicians in adult health services and it primarily reports that clinicians do not feel confident in systematically assessing voice-hearing and doubt the appropriateness of doing so. We applied the Theory of Planned Behavior and identified clinicians' job attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and perceived subjective norms as putative predictors of their intent to assess voice-hearing in youth.

Method

Nine hundred and ninety-six clinicians from adult mental health services, 467 from Child and Adolescent M

SUBMITTER: Rammou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10242135 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature