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Engaging with inpatient staff working on an older people's mixed functional and organic ward setting
— a trainee experience of running a supervision group | | Author(s) | Mareike Suesse, Candy Stone |
| Journal title | Psychology of Older People: The FPOP Bulletin, no 133, January 2016 |
| Publisher | British Psychological Society, January 2016 |
| Pages | pp 78-84 |
| Source | http://www.bps.org.uk/newtworks-and-communities/me... |
| Keywords | Medical workers ; Psychiatrists ; In-service training ; Engagement ; Communication ; Medical wards ; Case studies. |
| Annotation | A qualitative study with staff receiving psychological supervision on older adult inpatient units (Murphy, Osborne and Smith, 2013) suggested that supervision is a way of enabling staff to view their patients more as individuals and helped them to understand why patients are as they are. In light of this and similar studies in care homes and adult mental health units, a trainee and a consultant clinical psychiatrist describe a similar supervision group that had been set up at the request of the ward manager of an older adult inpatient ward with 16 female beds. They outline the training needs analysis and planning session, observing that the aim of a supervision group is to encourage reflection and thus improve practice. They consider the 'needs focused model' used in their fortnightly 45-60 minute sessions with 2-8 staff, who brought up difficult cases (involving patients with or without dementia). They note the mostly positive staff feedback, and discuss aspects of encouraging engagement. Although this supervision group was successful, a small minority of staff chose not to engage, despite being invited. The authors conclude that there is a role for supervision groups to write up case examples of successful experiences that would help educate those who do not support or understand how to use supervision. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160127210 A |
| Classmark | QT: QT9: QWD: DN: U: LD4: 69P |
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