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

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Liv BachmannSolfrid Vatne

Abstract

To gain insight into how the workplace influences milieu-therapists' vulnerability in the mental healthcare context. 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. Qualitative design. The study complied with the COREQ checklist. Focus group interviews. "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 unprotected" and in institutional care, "Together and protected." The participants from both specialized and community mental health care, experienced vulnerability at different levels interpreted as a contradictory relationship between the healthcare system and their own ideals of what professional practice ought to be. This study contributes to extended knowledge and understanding about the experienced influence of the working environment on professional vulnerability of nurses and milieu-therapists` in mental health services. The i...Continue Reading

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