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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1380001
This article is part of the Research Topic Parents with Mental and/or Substance Use Disorders and their Children, Volume III View all 15 articles

Predictors of Family-Focused Practices among mental health workers in Quebec

Provisionally accepted
Geneviève Piché Geneviève Piché 1*Aude Villatte Aude Villatte 2Marie-Ève Clément Marie-Ève Clément 1Marie-Hélène Morin Marie-Hélène Morin 3Darryl Maybery Darryl Maybery 4Andrea Reupert Andrea Reupert 4Stéphane Richard-Devantoy Stéphane Richard-Devantoy 5Marianne Fournier-Marceau Marianne Fournier-Marceau 1
  • 1 University of Quebec in Outaouais, Gatineau, Canada
  • 2 Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France
  • 3 Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
  • 4 Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 5 Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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    Context. Engaging family members in the ongoing care of individuals with mental illness is a practice known to bolster the client's recovery journey and enhance the overall wellbeing of both children and families involved. Despite its potential benefits, there remains a dearth of understanding surrounding the implementation of family-focused practices (FFP) by mental health professionals serving adults, as well as the factors that could either promote or hinder such practices. This knowledge gap is particularly pronounced within North American settings.Goal. The goal of this study was to identify potential hindering and enabling factors of FFP used in adult mental health services.A sample of 512 professionals working with adult mental health clients, from all regions of Quebec, Canada, with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and working in different work settings, completed the Family Focused Mental Health Practice Questionnaire (FFMHPQ). Multinominal logistic regression analysis was performed to assess the impact of several factorsorganizational, professional, and personalon the degree of family-based practices of mental health workers.Results and discussion. Findings of this study show that the strongest predictors for the adoption of higher FFP levels among adult mental health professionals in Quebec, are being employed on a full-time basis, perceiving a higher level of skills, knowledge, and confidence toward FFP, and having a supportive workplace environment. Results underscore the need to address both organizational and worker-related aspects to effectively promote better FFP in mental health services.

    Keywords: family-focused practices, Parenting, Parental mental illness, Mental health professionals, Children of parents with a mental illness (COPMI), children of parents with a mental illness

    Received: 31 Jan 2024; Accepted: 15 Apr 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Piché, Villatte, Clément, Morin, Maybery, Reupert, Richard-Devantoy and Fournier-Marceau. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Geneviève Piché, University of Quebec in Outaouais, Gatineau, Canada

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