Beyond the moment: Influence of a co‐facilitated education intervention on practitioners’ recovery beliefs and practices

Abstract

Despite health policy and research increasingly advocating for recovery‐enabling principles to be better integrated into mental health services, finding solutions to enhance the translation of recovery policy into practice remains a challenge. This study sought to understand whether a co‐facilitated group education intervention for service users and family members reached beyond the intervention and impacted the everyday recovery promoting beliefs and practices of the practitioners involved and the wider organization. The study employed a qualitative design involving semi‐structured interviews with a purposively selected sample of 28 participants (mental health nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary team) who were involved in delivering the intervention. Data were analysed using thematic analysis, with the assistance of NVivo. Participants reported that not only did involvement with the programmes help them reconnect with the contextual realities of service user and family members lived experience, but it enabled them to move beyond traditional power relationships and pathologizing discourses. Having engaged with and experienced the feasibility and positive impact of the co‐facilitation process practitioners’ self‐efficacy around partnership working and co‐production was enhanced. In addition, those involved demonstrated a willingness to challenge paternalistic practices and advocate for the perspectives of service users and families to be further embedded within the organizational infrastructure and operational spaces. Providing mental health practitioners with real‐life examples of partnership working and peer support in action within a co‐facilitated psychoeducation context has potential to be a forum for promoting second‐order change around recovery‐oriented practice within mental health services.

Exploring recovery‐focused educational programmes for advancing mental health nursing: An integrative systematic literature review

“…According to Higgins et al . (2020), many nurses’ self‐efficacy improved after participating in recovery education. Despite the evidence supporting self‐efficacy as a reliable performance indicator for predicting improvements in nurses’ performance, studies in this review did not empirically investigate this concept.…”

Factors Impacting the Implementation of a Psychoeducation Intervention Within the Mental Health System: a Multisite Study Using the Consolidation Framework for Implementation Research

“…In this regard, the recent publication of the Position Paper on recovery published by the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland in 2020 [51] is welcome, as not only does it outline how psychiatrists can embrace recovery principles but highlights the role of the EOLAS Programmes (e.g. including a psychiatrist as a 'guest speaker') as an example of the collaborative approach that is fundamental to recovery, and one that supports the diffusion of recovery principles in clinical practice [52].…”

Factors impacting the implementation of a psychoeducation intervention within the Mental Health System: a multisite study using the Consolidation Framework for Implementation Research

“…In this regard, the recent publication of the Position Paper on recovery published by the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland in 2020 [59] is welcome, as not only does it outline how psychiatrists can embrace recovery principles but highlights the role of the EOLAS Programmes (e.g. including a psychiatrist as a 'guest speaker') as an example of the collaborative approach that is fundamental to recovery, and one that supports the diffusion of recovery principles in clinical practice [60].…”