Perspectives on concluding therapeutic relationships
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Professional and service user perspectives on strategies used to conclude therapeutic relationships within secondary mental health services.
IRAS ID
276111
Contact name
Nicola Moran
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of York
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 12 days
Research summary
This research aims to investigate the perspectives of both professionals working in mental health services and services users who have used secondary mental health services on the topic of discharge from those services. For the professional perspective, the research will focus on how professionals report that they approach discharging service users and the process of bringing their professional relationships with service users to an end, in addition to how effective professionals believe these approaches to be. For the service user perspective, the research will focus on how service users have experienced being discharged from services and what impact the strategies used by professionals during the discharge process had. This will include how effective service users felt those strategies were and what they would recommend to practitioners when it comes to concluding professional relationships with service users.
Data will be gathered through semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with professionals and service users, lasting no longer than one hour. The location of these interviews will be negotiated individually between the Principal Investigator and individual participants to ensure that the setting is appropriate and convenient for both. Transcripts of these interviews will then be analysed using inductive qualitative methods, namely Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), to identify themes that arise from the content of both sets of interviews. These themes will be compared both within and between the two participant groups to identify potential commonalities or variations in perspective. These themes are expected to provide an insight into how discharge from secondary mental health services is perceived. This may prove helpful in informing how professionals ought to approach managing discharging service users in the future.
REC name
West Midlands - Coventry & Warwickshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/WM/0045
Date of REC Opinion
8 May 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion