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Murcott, William (2022) The experiences of young people aged 16 to 25 who have been admitted to inpatient mental health hospital care. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Youth health services are a recent innovation for delivering mental as well as physical health care in the community. Inpatient mental health care has not yet followed suit. Across the UK young people aged between 16 and 25 years old receive inpatient hospital mental health care from child mental health services and adult mental health services. Concerns have been raised as to problems associated with differences in care delivery and the potential for gaps in service delivery at a time of vulnerability for the young person.
This thesis reports on an investigation into the lived experiences of 16-25 year-olds, and staff who work with this age range, who had been admitted to mental health inpatient units in both CAMHS and AMHS. This qualitative study, utilising an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of data, provides new insight into the experiences of service users and staff, who access and support inpatient mental health across CAMHS and AMHS.
The themes derived from young participants were: The importance of interpersonal connections; making sense of the admission; and power dynamics and compromises to autonomy. Staff themes were: the system; supporting and failing young people; and working together.
Synthesis of findings indicated preliminary recommendations for the care of young people aged 16 to 25 admitted to inpatient settings across CAMHS and AMH services. Relational principles include staff recognition of the importance of, and facilitation of, relationships with staff and peers; peer relationships are important, as are shared experiences; that admission can be an opportunity for exploration. Inclusion principles include, information should be transparent and understandable; young people included in decision making and should be recognised as stakeholders and included in governance. Principles for working practices suggest that transition should be flexible and considered individually; services should engage with, and partnership work with, other mental and non-mental health services.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Youth -- Mental health services -- Great Britain, Psychiatric hospital care -- Great Britain, Psychiatric hospital care -- Great Britain -- Evaluation, Psychiatric hospital care -- Social aspects | ||||
Official Date: | June 2022 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Medical School | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Biggerstaff, Deborah ; Weich, Scott ; Thompson, Andrew | ||||
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Extent: | xiv, 326 pages : colour illustrations | ||||
Language: | eng |
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