In this meeting we want to share thoughts, ideas, activities and plans of the multiagency Psychosis Task Group initiated by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and to continue to develop the group's thinking through the input... [ view full abstract ]
In this meeting we want to share thoughts, ideas, activities and plans of the multiagency Psychosis Task Group initiated by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and to continue to develop the group's thinking through the input of workshop participants.
The Task Group's aims are to
- Articulate a shared view of good psychological care by mental health services for people with psychosis
- Contribute to the training of future psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists and professionals from other disciplines to develop their ability to support this, including capacities and skills in working with other agencies such as those in the voluntary sector,
- Identify ways in which the Royal College of Psychiatrists can work with other professional bodies and agencies to improve psychological care for people with psychosis.
As a first step we have begun to describe what we see as features of services which offers good psychological care and have set these out in a two page briefing paper which will be available to workshop participants.
In the workshop we hope to integrate views based on different experiences (people with psychosis, clinicians, family members..), different theoretical models and different resources at local and national levels.
We will begin with brief presentations by several Task Group members representing people with psychosis, family members and clinicians. We will also discuss concepts from a psychodynamic point of view of what helps / hinders multi-professional working eg. envy, shame, guilt and social defences alongside other organisational issues such as lack of task and role clarity.
In the second part of the meeting we would like to open a discussion and hear about thoughts, ideas and innovative practice from others. We hope that this will lead to establishing links with other individual colleagues, groups and institutions which will support us in our aims, and to working together on a national and possibly international level.
