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Barriers and facilitators to social prescribing in child and youth mental health: perspectives from the frontline.
- Source :
- European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; May2024, Vol. 33 Issue 5, p1465-1479, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- There is growing interest in the role of Social Prescribing (SP) to help promote mental well-being and support individuals with mental health difficulties. Yet, implementation of SP to children and young people (CYP) has proved slow and underdeveloped compared with adult populations. Understanding the barriers and facilitators will help key stakeholders to better embed SP for CYP into practice. Using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF), a comprehensive, theoretical-led framework, underpinned by 33 behaviour change theories and 128 constructs, perceived barriers and facilitators to SP were investigated. The sample comprised of 11 Link Workers and 9 individuals involved in facilitating SP with CYP, who took part in semi-structured interviews. Transcripts were analysed using a deductive thematic analysis, and themes were coded under each theoretical domain. Overall, 33 barriers and facilitators for SP were identified across 12 domains of the TDF. Under capability, barriers and facilitators were found for knowledge, skills, memory/attention/decision making processes, and behavioural regulation. For opportunity, barriers and facilitators were found for social/professional influences, as well as environmental context and resources. Finally, for motivation, domains covered included: beliefs about consequences, beliefs about capabilities, optimism, motivations/goals, reinforcement, and emotions. Findings suggest that a wide range of barriers and facilitators affect the implementation of CYP SP to improve mental health and well-being. Interventions which target different domains related to capability, opportunity and motivation should be developed to better facilitate CYP SP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HEALTH services accessibility
EMOTION regulation
REINFORCEMENT (Psychology)
CHILD psychopathology
MENTAL health services
MENTAL health
OPTIMISM
RESEARCH funding
SOCIAL workers
INTERVIEWING
SOCIAL worker attitudes
DECISION making
PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
CONFIDENCE
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
THEMATIC analysis
PROFESSIONS
ATTENTION
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
CONCEPTUAL structures
RESEARCH methodology
SOCIAL skills
MEMORY
INTERPERSONAL relations
STAKEHOLDER analysis
MEDICAL referrals
SOCIAL participation
WELL-being
PROFESSIONAL competence
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10188827
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178046264
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02257-x