Current state of the evidence on community treatments for people with complex emotional needs: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improving the quality of care in community settings for people with 'Complex Emotional Needs' (CEN-our preferred working term for services for people with a "personality disorder" diagnosis or comparable needs) is recognised internationally as a priority. Plans to improve care should be rooted as far as possible in evidence. We aimed to take stock of the current state of such evidence, and identify significant gaps through a scoping review of published investigations of outcomes of community-based psychosocial interventions designed for CEN.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review with systematic searches. We searched six bibliographic databases, including forward and backward citation searching, and reference searching of relevant systematic reviews. We included st

SUBMITTER: Ledden S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9442944 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature