Consumer Feedback following Participation in a Family-Based Intervention for Youth Mental Health

Consumer Feedback following Participation in a Family-Based Intervention for Youth Mental Health

Background. This paper presents findings derived from consumer feedback, following a multicentre randomised controlled trial for adolescent mental health problems and substance misuse. The paper focuses on the implementation of a family-based intervention, including fidelity of delivery, family members' experiences, and their suggestions for program improvements. Methods. Qualitative and quanti...

Reducing parental anxiety using a family based intervention for youth mental health: A randomized controlled trial

This paper presents findings on parent anxiety and attachment relationship style from the Deakin Family Options (DFO) pilot study, a randomized controlled pilot study comparing a family-based treatment (BEST Plus), versus a youth only treatment (CBT) versus a group who received both of these treatments (COMBINED). Eligible participants were families with a young person (aged 12 25 years) with a...

A psychometric analysis of the Mental Health Consumer Participation Questionnaire.

If consumer participation is to be translated from rhetoric into reality, the attitudes of health professionals need to be addressed. Educational strategies can play an important role, but measures of attitudes are needed to determine the effectiveness of these strategies. This paper seeks to establish the Mental Health Consumer Participation Questionnaire (MHCPQ) on psychometric grounds, and e...

Mental health consumer and carer participation: why we bother.

Family Participation in Mental Health Care - the Vellore Experiment

This paper describes the experiment of family participation practised in Mental Health Centre, Christian Medical College, Vellore. An attitude study was conducted on a group of 94 relatives of patients .All the subjects showed a marked degree of change in their knowledge and attitudes on various aspects of mental health and illness.