Clinical practitioner's attitudes towards the use of Routine Outcome Monitoring within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: A qualitative study of two Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. (October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Norman, Shelley; Dean, Sarah; Hansford, Lorraine; Ford, Tamsin
• Is Part Of: Clinical child psychology and psychiatry. Volume 19:Number 4(2014:Oct.)
• Page Start: 576
• Page End: 595
• Publication Date: 2014-10
• Subjects: Routine Outcome Monitoring -- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services -- practitioners -- implementation of Routine Outcome Monitoring -- advantages and disadvantages; Clinical child psychology -- Periodicals; Child psychiatry -- Periodicals; 618.9289
• DOI: 10.1177/1359104513492348
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1359-1045

Abstract

Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) is held as a greatly important part of practice across many Health Care Services, both in the NHS and in private practice. Yet despite this, there has been little research into the attitudes of practitioners towards ROM. This paper looks at the attitudes of 50 clinicians from two Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in greater London. The findings showed that although the practitioners were not overwhelming positive in their attitudes to ROM, neither were they overwhelming negative, and many of their concerns involved practical issues surrounding ROM that are potentially soluble. Practitioner engagement in ROM is key if ROM is to be used constructively to reflect on practice.