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Adult mental health outpatients who have minor children: Prevalence of parents, referrals of their children, and patient characteristics
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-02)<i>Background</i>: A strong connection exists between parental mental illness and lifetime mental health risk for their children. Thus, it is important to determine, when parents attend for treatment for their illness, the prevalence and characteristics of parents with a mental illness and identify referral actions for their children. Previous studies indicate that 12–45% of adult mental health ... -
Barriers and facilitators when implementing family involvement for persons with psychotic disorders in community mental health centres - a nested qualitative study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-12)<b><p>Background</b> The uptake of family involvement in health care services for patients with psychotic disorders is poor, despite a clear evidence base, socio-economic and moral justifications, policy, and guideline recommendations. To respond to this knowledge-practice gap, we established the cluster randomised controlled trial: Implementation of guidelines on Family Involvement for persons ... -
Carer involvement in the assessment of personal recovery: A naturalistic study of assertive community treatment in Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-27)Background: The user and carer movements have come a long way in becoming embedded in mainstream mental health services for individuals with serious mental illness. However, implementing recovery-oriented practice continues to be plagued by an individualistic clinical focus. The carers do not feel integrated despite policies and best intentions. The implementation of Assertive Community Treatment ... -
Differences in implementation of family focused practice in hospitals: a cross-sectional study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-10)<p><i>Background</i>: Changes in Norwegian law and health policy require all health professionals to help safeguard the provision of information and follow-up for the children of parents with mental or physical illness, or substance abuse problems, to decrease their risk of psychosocial problems. There is a lack of knowledge on how the national changes have been received by hospital-based health ... -
Editorial Perspective: Prato Research Collaborative for change in parent and child mental health – principles and recommendations for working with children and parents living with parental mental illness
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-28)Children whose parents have mental illnesses are among the most vulnerable in our communities. There is however, much that can be done to prevent or mitigate the impact of a parent’s illness on children. Notwithstanding the availability of several evidence-based interventions, efforts to support these children have been limited by a lack of adequate support structures. Major service reorientation ... -
The Effect of Intensive Implementation Support on Fidelity for Four Evidence‑Based Psychosis Treatments: A Cluster Randomized Trial
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-19)Purpose Service providers need efective strategies to implement evidence-based practices (EBPs) with high fdelity. This study aimed to evaluate an intensive implementation support strategy to increase fdelity to EBP standards in treatment of patients with psychosis.<p> <p>Methods The study used a cluster randomized design with pairwise assignment of practices within each of 39 Norwegian mental ... -
Hospitals implementing changes in law to protect children of ill parents: A cross-sectional study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-06)<i>Background</i>: Norway is one of the first countries to require all health professionals to play a part in prevention for children of parents with all kinds of illnesses (mental illness, drug addiction, or severe physical illness or injury) in order to mitigate their increased risk of psychosocial problems. Hospitals are required to have child responsible personnel (CRP) to promote and ... -
The Physical Health Care Fidelity Scale: Psychometric Properties
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-08)Mental health programs need an instrument to monitor adherence to evidence-based physical health care for people with serious mental illness. The paper describes the Physical Health Care Fidelity Scale and study interrater reliability, frequency distribution, sensitivity to change and feasibility. Four fidelity assessments were conducted over 18 months at 13 sites randomized to implementation support ... -
Predictors of family focused practice: organisation, profession, or the role as child responsible personnel?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-05)<p><i>Background - </i>Health professionals in Norway are required by law to help safeguard information and follow-up with children of parents with mental or physical illness, or who have substance abuse problems, to reduce their higher risk of psychosocial problems. Knowledge is lacking regarding whether organisation and/or worker-related factors can explain the differences in health professionals’ ... -
Training frontline workforce on psychosis management: a prospective study of training effects
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-19)Background: The care situation for persons experiencing severe mental illness is often complex and demands good coordination, communication, and interpersonal relationships among those involved from the primary and special‑ ized mental health care systems. For 15 years, professional care providers from different service levels within the same geographical areas in Norway have been trained ...
