Author:
TANSELLA MICHELE,THORNICROFT GRAHAM
Abstract
Background. The reform of mental health services needs
to be
guided by an overall conceptual
framework. Such a framework is important to avoid many risks, including
extrapolating from a
specific service site to other services, without taking into account local
and regional variables.Methods. A conceptual framework, the ‘matrix model’,
is proposed. This model has been developed
using the most relevant information that is necessary for describing and
interpreting mental health services data as well as patient-based information.Results. The ‘matrix model’ has two dimensions:
the geographical, which refers to three levels
(country, local and patient) and the temporal, which refers to three
phases (inputs, processes and
outcomes). Using these two dimensions a nine-cell matrix is constructed
to bring into focus critical
issues for mental health services. The relevance of each level and each
phase
is briefly presented.Conclusions. The matrix is intended to assist clinicians, planners
and researchers to deal with clinical
phenomena, organizational issues, and research questions that share a degree
of complexity that
render inadequate analyses and the interventions made only at one
level. The matrix model applies
particularly to mental health systems of care that are provided with a
public health framework, and
is less useful for contexts that consist of clinicians offering only one-to-one
treatments, within fragmented programmes of care.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Applied Psychology
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