Back to Search
Start Over
The care crisis in Spain: an analysis of the family care situation in mental health from a professional psychosocial perspective.
- Source :
-
Social Work in Mental Health . Nov/Dec2019, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p743-760. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
-
Abstract
- The aim of this article is to investigate the importance of family care in mental health and identify the shortcomings of the Spanish model of health care for the mentally ill. The empirical process comprised three qualitative procedures involving 37 experts from different regions of Spain. In order to guarantee the rigor of the data, a social worker discussion group was set up to create an interview script. Interviews were then carried out with 22 professionals who take care of people with mental illness in various public facilities throughout the country. A second focal group met three times to validate the categorizations analyzed in the interviews. The results of the empirical process indicate a need to remodel the mental health care system, which can be described with reference to five critical characteristics: 1) a lack of financial and human resources for mental health, 2) a lack of effective coordination among all the institutions and authorities involved, 3) a lack of quality resources aimed at rehabilitation and social reintegration as alternatives to institutionalization, 4) a lack of integrated care, and 5) a lack of a common healthcare framework for all professional workers in all the regions. A remodeling of the system is necessary to enable the rehabilitation, recovery, empowerment and development of people with SMD and thus ease the burden and improve the quality of life of family caregivers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MENTAL health services evaluation
*CAREGIVERS
*CONTENT analysis
*DISCOURSE analysis
*FAMILY medicine
*FOCUS groups
*HEALTH care reform
*HEALTH services accessibility
*INFORMED consent (Medical law)
*INTERVIEWING
*RESEARCH methodology
*MENTAL health
*REHABILITATION
*RESEARCH
*RESEARCH funding
*SOCIAL case work
*SOCIAL workers
*QUALITATIVE research
*HUMAN research subjects
*DATA analysis software
*MEDICAL coding
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15332985
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social Work in Mental Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 138887687
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2019.1668904