Auditory Hallucinations Interview Guide: Promoting Recovery with an Interactive Assessment Tool

Trygstad, Louise; Buccheri, Robin; Buffum, Martha; Ju, Daushen; Dowling, Glenna A.

doi:10.3928/02793695-20141203-01

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“…PANSS) offered service users and practitioners a common language to start a conversation about voices. This may suggest that conversations about voices could be initially stimulated by the systematic use of such assessment tools, with a possible focus upon tools which have a symptom‐specific focus such as the Auditory Hallucinations Interview Guide (AHIG, Trygstad, Buccheri, Buffum, Ju, & Dowling, ).…”

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A qualitative study exploring how Practitioners within Early Intervention in Psychosis Services engage with Service Users’ experiences of voice hearing?

Bogen-Johnston

Visser

Strauss

et al. 2020

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Accessible Summary What is known on the subject? The experience of hearing distressing voices is commonly reported by service users with a diagnosis of first‐episode psychosis, but their access to formal conversations about voices in the form of psychological therapies can be limited. Service users within Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) services can benefit from informal opportunities to talk about their voice hearing experiences. However, they can be reluctant to engage with these conversations. Little is known about the experiences of EIP practitioners as they try to engage service users in conversations about their voices. What does the paper add to existing knowledge? Despite EIP Services specializing in the treatment of the symptoms of psychosis such as voice hearing, practitioners can still be reluctant to initiate and continue informal conversations about voices. What are the implications for practice? EIP practitioners may benefit from the introduction of interview guides and brief interventions to assist them with the initiation and continuation of conversations about voices. Abstract IntroductionHearing voices is a common and distressing symptom of first‐episode psychosis. Formal and informal conversations about voices are helpful, but service users within Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Services can be reluctant to discuss their voice hearing experiences. There is currently no literature that explores the experiences of EIP practitioners as they try to facilitate conversations about distressing voices. Aim/QuestionA qualitative methodology was used to investigate how EIP practitioners work with service users who hear voices. Ten practitioners were interviewed, and interviews were analysed using template analysis. ResultsTwo themes that offer novel insights are presented: “starting a conversation about voices” and “continuing the conversation about voices.” DiscussionStarting and continuing a conversation about voices was considered important but not all practitioners were confident in this respect. The initiation and continuation of these conversations may need to be systematically supported. Implications for practiceTo support the initiation of informal conversations, a standardized interview guide for voice hearing could be introduced and systematically utilized. The continuation of these conversations could be supported by practitioners being given the opportunity to receive training in and the opportunity to deliver brief symptom‐specific therapies for distressing voices.

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A qualitative study exploring how Practitioners within Early Intervention in Psychosis Services engage with Service Users’ experiences of voice hearing?

Bogen-Johnston

Visser

Strauss

et al. 2020

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…One such strategy was using a narrative tool to help understand their service users’ voice‐hearing experiences (Place et al., ). Other services have also adapted the Maastricht Interview (Romme & Escher, ) to help structure conversations about voices, and this has led to a reduction in staff anxiety about opening up these types of conversations (e.g., auditory hallucinations interview guide, Trygstad, Buccheri, Buffman, Ju, & Dowling, ).…”

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Experiences of mental health nursing staff working with voice hearers in an acute setting: An interpretive phenomenological approach

McMullan

Gupta

Collins

2018

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Introduction Mental health nursing (MHN) staff in acute settings work with voice hearers at times of crises when they experience high levels of distress. Previous research has focused on community mental health staff's experiences and their service users views on exploring the content of voices. No studies have explored this from an acute mental health service perspective. Aim This study therefore sought to explore the experiences of staff working with voice hearers in an acute mental health service. Method Due to the exploratory nature of the research, a qualitative design was chosen. Three MHNs and five healthcare support workers (HSWs) were interviewed. The data were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results A group analysis elicited three master themes: "It's quite scary really, not unlike a horror movie;" "I can only influence what's in front of me;" and "Just chipping away". Discussion Staff working with voice hearers in acute settings experience feelings of powerlessness and helplessness, as they feel unable to reduce the distress experienced by voice hearers in their care. Staff employ coping strategies to help manage these difficult feelings, including using structured tools in their work with voice hearers and attending reflective practice forums. Implications for Practice Acute mental health services may need to protect time for staff to access regular reflective practice and other supervision forums to help manage their feelings of powerlessness and helplessness arising from their work with voice hearers.

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“…Dissertation to the Universidade Federal de Vicosa by E. Guatimosim, who would like to thank H. C. Evans for his suggestions" (Biology; Guatimosim et al, 2015; the other example was in the Social Sciences). Finally, two sentences were found where "work" had another meaning altogether; in the following example, the NP was used to designate a contribution spanning whole careers and vocations: "This article is dedicated to all of the psychiatric-mental health nurses and other mental health clinicians who work diligently to help their patients learn how to manage their auditory hallucinations and stay safe" (Health; Trygstad, Buccheri, Buffum, Ju & Dowling, 2015).…”

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Checks and Balances: Taking a Closer Look at Funding Acknowledgements Texts

Paul‐Hus¹,

Desrochers²

2018

CAIS/ACSI

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Since 2008, funding acknowledgements have been indexed by Web of Science, allowing for large-scale analyses of acknowledgements. The objective of this study is to qualitatively analyse the content of acknowledgements texts in order to contextualize quantitatively obtained trends in acknowledgement practices. The preliminary results show that funding-related uses are more prevalent than expected, since even seemingly non-funding-related terms are in fact linked to funding statements.

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Auditory Hallucinations Interview Guide: Promoting Recovery with an Interactive Assessment Tool

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

A qualitative study exploring how Practitioners within Early Intervention in Psychosis Services engage with Service Users’ experiences of voice hearing?

A qualitative study exploring how Practitioners within Early Intervention in Psychosis Services engage with Service Users’ experiences of voice hearing?

Experiences of mental health nursing staff working with voice hearers in an acute setting: An interpretive phenomenological approach

Checks and Balances: Taking a Closer Look at Funding Acknowledgements Texts

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