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Implementing a patient centred recovery approach in a secure learning disabilities service

Fola Esan (Based at Burston House Hospital, Diss, UK)
Katie Case (Based at Burston House Hospital, Diss, UK)
Jacques Louis (Based at Burston House Hospital, Diss, UK)
Jemma Kirby (Based at Burston House Hospital, Diss, UK)
Lucinda Cheshire (Based at Burston House Hospital, Diss, UK)
Jannette Keefe (Based at Burston House Hospital, Diss, UK)
Maggie Petty (Based at Burston House Hospital, Diss, UK)

Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour

ISSN: 2042-0927

Article publication date: 9 March 2012

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to describe how a patient centred recovery approach was implemented in a secure learning disabilities service.

Design/methodology/approach

There are no specific tools for measuring recovery in a secure learning disabilities service. The Recovery Star; a measure of individual recovery was adopted for use among the patients. Staff underwent training on the use of the Recovery Star tool after which a multidisciplinary steering group made some modifications to the tool. Training was cascaded to staff throughout the service and use of the Recovery Star tool was embedded in the care programme approach process.

Findings

It was found that implementing a recovery approach with the Recovery Star tool was a beneficial process for the service but that services will require a whole systems approach to implementing recovery. Key workers working with patients thought that the structure of the Recovery Star tool opened up avenues for discussing topics covered in the domains of the Recovery Star tool which may otherwise have not been discussed as fully.

Practical implications

The availability of a tool, integrated into existing service processes, e.g. care programme approach and accompanied by a systems approach, equips patients and staff for articulating and measuring the recovery journey.

Originality/value

The paper shows that the Recovery Star tool, embedded in a care programme approach process, equips patients and staff for measuring the recovery journey.

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Citation

Esan, F., Case, K., Louis, J., Kirby, J., Cheshire, L., Keefe, J. and Petty, M. (2012), "Implementing a patient centred recovery approach in a secure learning disabilities service", Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1108/20420921211236807

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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