Question

How to achieve that certain inclusion criteria (no minors) and therapeutic view will less obstruct the working with the context?

Problem description

Our therapeutic view and corresponding approach based on various cognitive-behavioural tools, can hamper a thorough contextual and systemic functioning in certain situations.   In situations where the request for help concerns a child or adolescent, we can’t include the case because of our exclusion criteria (no minors).  Our knowledge of “KOPP” (specific approach for children of parents with psychiatric problems) is limited

Impact - effect

Demands for help concerning minors may contain inherent adequate help demands for the mobile crisis team.  But since we don’t deal with help request for minors, the adult context is left without any help. Conversely, MTA gets involved in a lot of situations where the children of the (adult) client should be better considered in the treatment process, but we lack specific knowledge to do this systematically and thoroughly

To do

Further development of our therapeutic vision within the team, so that a uniform underlying clinical vision can be supported by all team members and consequently the individual clinical decisions by the various team members will converge.  Specifically: looking for a possible integration of the underlying systemic and behavioural therapeutic views with evidence based treatment instruments?

Consider a possible integration of “KOPP” into the MTA contextual approach.  Or, how to expand interventions in the context of the client (= MTA functioning) to interventions for the other family members (including children) in when a help demand has been formulated.

And consider the possibility of the MTA to motivate referrers of minors to search for help demands in the adult context that are adequate for MTA and could allow MTA to deal with it

Hyperlink

http://www.mobileteamsconnecting.eu/bijlagen/H32%20-%20contextuele%20werking%20(ERIC).pdf

Theme

Acute care pathway

Topic

Acute care pathway: which activities, how (modalities), an acute care pathway programme

Reference -  contact

Bregwin Vantieghem, Marleen Lierman

Mobile team

2A

Project

Ieper-Diksmuide

Intership abroad - place

E.R.I.C.

Date

April 2014