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Community treatment orders and care planning: How is engagement and decision-making enacted?

ABSTRACT:

Background

In many jurisdictions worldwide, individuals with a mental illness may be forced to receive care and treatment in the community. In Australia, legislation states that such care should be driven by a care plan that is recovery-focussed. Key components in the care planning process include engagement and decision-making about a person's support needs and care options, with trust being an essential component of care planning relationships.

Objective

This study examines how these components were enacted during service care contacts for individuals on community treatment orders.

Methods

The study was located at two community mental health teams in South Australia. Ethnographic observations of care planning discussions between consumers, their carers and clinicians, and interviews with individuals from these groups, were conducted over 18 months. Carspecken's critical ethnography provided a rigorous means for examining the data to identify underlying cultural themes that were informing day-to-day care interactions.

Results

Care planning was not occurring as it was intended, with service culture and structures impeding the development of trusting relationships. Clinicians striving to work collaboratively with consumers had to navigate a service bias and culture that emphasized a hierarchy of 'knowing', with consumers assumed to have less knowledge than clinicians.

Conclusions

Services and clinicians can challenge prejudicial ethical injustice and counter this through testimonial justice and implementation of tools and approaches that support genuine shared decision-making.

Patient or public contribution

This study included individuals with lived experience of mental illness, their carers and clinicians as participants and researchers.

SUBMITTER: Dawson S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8483198 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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