Mental Health Team Leadership and Consumers' Satisfaction and Quality of Life

Abstract

Leadership seems to be an important variable for understanding a team's impact on its consumers.

Improving quality of medical treatment and care: are surgeons’ working conditions and job satisfaction associated to patient satisfaction?

“…Results have demonstrated that surgical patients are less satisfied in hospitals where surgeons reported unsatisfactory, unacceptable working conditions and reduced job satisfaction. Former studies performed by several researchers, as mentioned above, showed that satisfied medical staff has a strong influence on patients' satisfaction [77][78][79].…”

Barriers to Evidence-Based Practice Implementation: Results of a Qualitative Study

“…In fact, few supervisors had but the most superficial knowledge of how their workers practiced. This ''laissez faire'' form of leadership has been found ineffective in producing high rates of client outcomes (Corrigan et al 2000). The introduction of the EBP's with their specific practice guidelines required a new set of behaviors by supervisors who had great difficulty making the transformation.…”

Preventing Burnout in Mental Health Workers at Interpersonal Level: An Italian Pilot Study

“…This intervention consisted of a cognitive-behavioural session that could limit the onset or re-define dissonant emotions (Zapf 2002;Brotheridge and Grandey 2002;Scorpiniti and Cotugno 2003). The action labeled ''Optimal strategies for work task planning and handling of the relationships with staff members'' (workshop 1b) was carried out with Group 2 members within a session inspired to Corrigan et al (1998Corrigan et al ( , 2000 and Corrigan and McCracken (1995) works.…”