Mental health crisis at home: Service user perspectives on what helps and what hinders

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 310-318

  Hopkins, C ^a   Niemiec, S ^b  

^a Newcastle Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b Crisis Assessment and Treatment Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Home treatment; Mental health crisis; Service user

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DECISION MAKING; EMPATHY; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EMPATHY; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEGOTIATING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 34147113398     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01083.x     Document Type: Article

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