Nurses' responses to adolescent distress in an acute child and adolescent mental health inpatient unit: A qualitative interpretive descriptive study

Title: Nurses' responses to adolescent distress in an acute child and adolescent mental health inpatient unit: A qualitative interpretive descriptive study
Creator: Spencer, Stephen; Kable, Ashley; Stone, Teresa; McMillan, Margaret
Relation: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing Vol. 34, Issue 4, p. 352-359
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcap.12342
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: Purpose: To describe observed nursing responses and interventions to adolescent inpatients experiencing distress. Methods: Thorne's interpretive descriptive approach guided data collection and analysis of nonparticipant observations of a purposive sample of adolescents, and nurses. Findings: Three major themes are presented: engagement: responses and interventions for working with distress; adolescent reactions and nurses' clinical decision making to manage distress; and outcomes: escalation or resolution of distress. Conclusions: The TAR3 conceptual model developed from this study can guide nurses' responses to distressed adolescents and promote safety, enhance positive outcomes, and reduce the use of coercive interventions.
Subject: adolescent distress; inpatient; observation; restraint; seclusion
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1472502
Identifier: uon:48852
Identifier: ISSN:1073-6077
Language: eng
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