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Street, Catherine, Paul, Moli and Singh, Swaran P. (2017) Learning from the National Transition Worker Network. Social Research Practice, 4 . pp. 24-29.
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Abstract
Ensuring appropriate transfer and quality of transitional care for young people moving from Child and Adolescent (CAMHS) to Adult (AMHS) Mental Health Services is a health policy and practice imperative. This paper describes a research study – the Bridge Project – which used an action research methodology to gather information on different transition worker roles and transition services in place from 2011 to 2013.
The Bridge Project established and facilitated a network made up of 28 transition practitioners from across England and Wales who met every six months. There is a lack of published data about the transition worker role, and sharing and collating ‘real life’ experiences of delivering transition support by network members played an important role in the research. The information helped to build up a national picture of an evolving role and through this, identify the key issues and variations in practice to explore in the fieldwork. It also challenged the researchers to think about the practice studied in the West Midlands, and whether the challenges and successes reported were peculiar to the local CAMHS and AMHS or reflected more widespread systemic challenges in the role: that is, to what extent the findings could be generalised. Findings from the Bridge Project included that transition roles and services vary but have some common features. Significant cultural and practical differences exist between CAMHS and AMHS, and effective transition worker posts often require high levels of management facilitation and support, with experienced post-holders who demand respect from clinicians and clarity of roles and responsibilities.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Research Practice | ||||
| Publisher: | Social Research Association | ||||
| Official Date: | June 2017 | ||||
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| Volume: | 4 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 24-29 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
| Funder: | NHS West Midlands Innovation Fund, NHS Midlands and East | ||||
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