Question

Does crisis work allows therapeutic work ?

Problem description

Mobile crisis teams meet people with multiple and complex problems, whether or not related to the crisis.  These problems are important for the user, he needs to “deliver” them, to “empty his bag”.  However, teams that aims these type of short term interventions may not “treat” itself these various problems.  Although there is the temptation of doing this anyway, and this due to the earlier work culture

Impact - effect

Once the team starts to work on these problems it becomes difficult to pass the estafet-baton to somebody else at the moment the team finishes its intervention.  Or also, it will become difficult for the user to leave the established trust relationship to reinitiate a new one with another professional or service

To do

To do: to concentrate on the crisis, and don’t walk into open doors.  This means that, as a team member, you need to be reluctant to take the position of a therapist, while having the sense of usefulness and peer recognition.  This is why it is necessary that the mobile teams benefit from a continuing formation, supervision, etc. , without this is being jeopardised by budget issues.  It’s about a new type of work, very different from the work realised in hospitals while the team members are almost all people coming from hospital.  Therefore they should be prepared to this change of culture

Theme

Starting up and further development/deployment of mobile teams

Topic

critical success factors for starting up and further development/deployment

Reference -  contact

Valérie Bauwens

Mobile team

2A

Project

Région du Centre

Intership abroad - place

E.R.I.C.

Date

September 2013