Exploring clinicians’ experience of using Behavioural Family Therapy within an older adult community mental health service

Abstract

This service evaluation summarises the experience of staff offering Behavioural Family Therapy (BFT) in a community mental health setting for older people. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to gather staff views and a Template Analysis was used to summarise feedback. This evaluation indicates that BFT were seen as beneficial to Older Adults (OA) across a range of mental health problems and adaptations were needed to support this patient group and their families.