Providing Family Help at Home

Lingley-Pottie, Patricia; Watters, Carolyn; McGrath, Patrick J.; Janz, Teresa

doi:10.1109/hicss.2005.513

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“…The service is delivered at a distance to children and families in their own homes at times convenient to them. 8 Participants were recruited through written referrals from family physicians. Children exhibiting mild to moderate diagnosable mental health disorders including behaviour disorders, anxiety, nocturnal enuresis, recurrent headache and abdominal pain were referred to the Family Help research programme.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Family Help treatment programme consisted of three components: written, easy-to-manage information available by handbook or by secure website; video scenarios that complemented the written materials and a nonprofessional telephone coach who was supervised by a psychologist. 8 The treatment programme contained 4-12 sessions and took 3-6 months to complete.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A therapeutic alliance can exist without face-to-face contact

Lingely-Pottie

McGrath

2006

J Telemed Telecare

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We examined the therapeutic alliance in 64 parents who completed treatment with a non-professional telephone coach in a paediatric psychosocial and behavioural intervention study called Family Help. The mean total Working Alliance Inventory score was 242.7 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 240.2, 245.2). Overall, the total scores were very high regardless of coach/parental age or gender, socioeconomic class/educational level of the parent, severity or type of the child's mental health disorder or modality of treatment delivery. The results were compared with normative data reported from other studies, which suggested that the distance therapeutic alliance scores were at least similar to face-to-face therapeutic alliance scores. The present study provides evidence that a strong, positive therapeutic alliance can exist in the absence of face-to-face contact using non-professional telephone coaches.

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A therapeutic alliance can exist without face-to-face contact

Lingely-Pottie

McGrath

2006

J Telemed Telecare

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“…Barriers such as the incidental costs of treatment and stigma must be overcome. Telehealth, such as the Family Help programme, 23–26 is a promising approach.…”

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Telehealth: a child and family-friendly approach to mental health-care reform

Lingley-Pottie

McGrath

2008

J Telemed Telecare

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Limited access to paediatric mental health services and high drop-out rates from treatment result in poor health outcomes for families with children with mental health problems. New ways of delivering care are required. Telehealth is a promising approach. The Family Help programme employs manualized, distance treatment by telephone. Participants in the Family Help programme (both adults and children) have reported a strong therapeutic alliance with their telephone coach. Participants also described how during treatment sessions they felt comfortable and safe in their own home; they did not feel stigmatized or judged; they had little apprehension about self-disclosure and they felt that treatment was delivered at their convenience. Treatment calls were often scheduled after typical working hours. Attrition rates were found to be very low and children actively engaged in the structured, distance treatment. Evidence-based, distance delivery using non-professionals is a promising approach to the delivery of paediatric mental health care.

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“…3 These interventions are usually highly structured, self-guided or partly self-guided (i.e., professional therapist or nonprofessional support [trained non-healthcare professional or lay peers] through regular brief telephone and/or e-mail contact), tailored to the user's needs, and interactive. [1][2][3][4][5][6] This new vehicle for delivering cognitive-behavioral treatments overcomes the current barriers (accessibility, availability, and costs) that prevent children and youth from accessing these health services. 7,8 Positive outcomes have been found for Internet self-management interventions for adult [9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and pediatric 5,16 health problems across a range of outcomes related to knowledge, behavioral change (improved treatment adherence), symptom management, and health status/ health-related quality of life.…”

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Exploring Therapeutic Alliance with an Internet-Based Self-Management Program with Brief Telephone Support for Youth with Arthritis: A Pilot Study

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Stinson

Lingley-Pottie

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Telemedicine and e-Health

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Findings from a pilot study are presented exploring therapeutic alliance between adolescent juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients and a trained nonprofessional health coach during the feasibility testing of a 12-week self-management program delivered online with brief telephone support. Therapeutic alliance was measured using the Working Alliance Inventory Client Scale (WAI-C), and qualitative information about the experience was gathered using the Distance Experience Questionnaire. WAI-C scores were found to be comparable to previously published pediatric face-to-face data and pediatric distance treatment data. Therapeutic alliance scores were also found to be correlated with improved treatment outcomes (decreased reported pain).

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Providing Family Help at Home

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

A therapeutic alliance can exist without face-to-face contact

A therapeutic alliance can exist without face-to-face contact

Telehealth: a child and family-friendly approach to mental health-care reform

Exploring Therapeutic Alliance with an Internet-Based Self-Management Program with Brief Telephone Support for Youth with Arthritis: A Pilot Study

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