Why involve families in acute mental healthcare? A collaborative conceptual review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Family involvement is strongly recommended in clinical guidelines but suffers from poor implementation. To explore this topic at a conceptual level, a multidisciplinary review team including academics, clinicians and individuals with lived experience undertook a review to explore the theoretical background of family involvement models in acute mental health treatment and how this relates to their delivery.

Design

A conceptual review was undertaken, including a systematic search and narrative synthesis. Included family models were mapped onto the most commonly referenced underlying theories: the diathesis-stress model, systems theories and postmodern theories of mental health. Common components of the models were summarised and compared. Lastly, a thematic analysis

SUBMITTER: Dirik A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623469 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature