Professional vulnerability in mental healthcare contexts: A focus group study of milieu-therapists' experiences.

ABSTRACT:

Aims and objectives

To gain insight into how the workplace influences milieu-therapists' vulnerability in the mental healthcare context.

Background

Mental health services have experienced substantial changes. Reduced institutional treatment capacity is replacing the development of locally based treatment. Changes in external conditions in mental health services have influenced the working conditions of nurses and milieu-therapists.

Design

Qualitative design. The study complied with the COREQ checklist.

Methods

Focus group interviews.

Results

"Vulnerability due to unpredictable and threatening working context" was the common key theme that emerged in both contexts. Two key themes were different and opposite. In municipal mental health care, "Alone and unp

SUBMITTER: Bachmann L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6650672 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature