Identifying the key features and outcomes of family navigation services for mental health and/or addictions concerns: a Delphi study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Family navigation in mental health and addictions is a mode of support aimed at helping families through the complex mental health and addictions system, making well-informed service matches, and engaging with families throughout their care journeys. As family navigation services emerge and grow, understanding their unique features and impacts is essential to defining evaluation measures and driving good outcomes for families.

Methods

This Delphi study investigated the defining features of family mental health and addictions navigation, factors involved in a successful service match, and important outcomes of the process through perspectives of clients and team members of a family navigation program, as well as those of local mental health and/or addictions servic

SUBMITTER: Markoulakis R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6393957 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature