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- Title
THE EFFECTS OF INTERACTIVE STAFF TRAINING ON STAFF PROGRAMING AND PATIENT AGGRESSION IN A PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT WARD.
- Authors
Corrigan, Patrick; Holmes, E. Paul; Luchins, Daniel; Basit, Abdul; Delaney, Ethel; Gleason, Walter; Buican, Brett; McCracken, Stanley
- Abstract
Interactive staff training (IST) uses principles of organization psychology to help line-level staff members design and implement social learning programs for severely mentally ill inpatients. IST is a training package that includes assessment of staff perceptions regarding programmatic needs, selection of appropriate social learning strategies to meet these needs, appointment of a program committee from within the ward to champion development of the social learning strategy, and participative decision making about aspects of the social learning strategy. Staff on an extended care ward at a state hospital participated in IST for 15 months as part of a pilot study of its effects. Ongoing examination of ward programming showed that IST significantly increased staff and patient participation in rehabilitation programming and decreased the rate of physical restraints and aggression-related. Changes in staff attitudes about rehabilitation programming were noted on a subsample of IST participants. Implications for more controlled research into IST are discussed.
- Subjects
EMPLOYEE training; PSYCHIATRIC hospital care; PSYCHIATRIC hospital patients; MENTAL health personnel &; patient; PEOPLE with mental illness; MENTAL health personnel; DECISION making; INDUSTRIAL psychology; SOCIAL learning; STATE hospitals; MEDICAL rehabilitation; TRAINING
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 1995, Vol 10, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.2360100103