Solution-focused approaches in adult mental health research: A conceptual literature review and narrative synthesis
Solution-focused approaches are one approach to treatment used in a wide variety of settings in modern mental healthcare services. As yet, there has been no overall synthesis of how this approach is understood in the adult mental health literature. This conceptual review aimed to synthesize the ways...
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| description | Solution-focused approaches are one approach to treatment used in a wide variety of settings in modern mental healthcare services. As yet, there has been no overall synthesis of how this approach is understood in the adult mental health literature. This conceptual review aimed to synthesize the ways that solution-focused approaches have been conceptualized and understood, within the adult mental health literature, in the five decades since their conception. A systematic search followed by multiple techniques from the narrative synthesis approach were used to develop a conceptual framework of the extracted data. Fifty-six papers published between 1993 and 2019 were included in the review. These papers spanned a variety of clinical contexts and countries, but despite this the underlying key principles and concepts of solution-focused approaches were remarkably similar over time and setting. Thematic analysis of extracted data outlined five key themes relevant to the conceptualization of this approach. This conceptual framework will help support clinicians using solution-focused techniques or therapies by giving them a coherent understanding of such approaches, by what mechanisms they work, and how key principles of this approach can be utilized in adult mental health settings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4667c12795bb4bd89f95372b73c2e7a32023-03-30T06:33:51ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402023-03-011410.3389/fpsyt.2023.10680061068006Solution-focused approaches in adult mental health research: A conceptual literature review and narrative synthesisLauren Jerome0Philip McNamee1Nadia Abdel-Halim2Kathryn Elliot3Jonathan Woods4Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United KingdomUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Newham Centre for Mental Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United KingdomUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Newham Centre for Mental Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United KingdomUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United KingdomDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies, The University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, United KingdomSolution-focused approaches are one approach to treatment used in a wide variety of settings in modern mental healthcare services. As yet, there has been no overall synthesis of how this approach is understood in the adult mental health literature. This conceptual review aimed to synthesize the ways that solution-focused approaches have been conceptualized and understood, within the adult mental health literature, in the five decades since their conception. A systematic search followed by multiple techniques from the narrative synthesis approach were used to develop a conceptual framework of the extracted data. Fifty-six papers published between 1993 and 2019 were included in the review. These papers spanned a variety of clinical contexts and countries, but despite this the underlying key principles and concepts of solution-focused approaches were remarkably similar over time and setting. Thematic analysis of extracted data outlined five key themes relevant to the conceptualization of this approach. This conceptual framework will help support clinicians using solution-focused techniques or therapies by giving them a coherent understanding of such approaches, by what mechanisms they work, and how key principles of this approach can be utilized in adult mental health settings.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1068006/fullsolution-focusedadult mental healthconceptual reviewnarrative synthesistherapeutic approach |
| spellingShingle | Lauren Jerome Philip McNamee Nadia Abdel-Halim Kathryn Elliot Jonathan Woods Solution-focused approaches in adult mental health research: A conceptual literature review and narrative synthesis Frontiers in Psychiatry solution-focused adult mental health conceptual review narrative synthesis therapeutic approach |
| title | Solution-focused approaches in adult mental health research: A conceptual literature review and narrative synthesis |
| title_full | Solution-focused approaches in adult mental health research: A conceptual literature review and narrative synthesis |
| title_fullStr | Solution-focused approaches in adult mental health research: A conceptual literature review and narrative synthesis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Solution-focused approaches in adult mental health research: A conceptual literature review and narrative synthesis |
| title_short | Solution-focused approaches in adult mental health research: A conceptual literature review and narrative synthesis |
| title_sort | solution focused approaches in adult mental health research a conceptual literature review and narrative synthesis |
| topic | solution-focused adult mental health conceptual review narrative synthesis therapeutic approach |
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