Transcript famSupFlowchart

Tier One:
Name: Family Orientation Meeting. (FOM)
Target: Adult families of clients admitted to the Unit
Status: 2nd phase currently in progress
Focus: A family’s experience of crisis
Facilitated by: Nurse Therapy & Social Work
Developed by NurseTherapy,Psychology & Social Work
Evaluated by families. Co-ordinated by Orla Bushnell
Phone
Referral option
contact
Family Discharge
Meeting
Target: Family and client.
Focus: support requirements
concordance and relapse
prevention.
Tier Two:
Name: Family Support Group
Target: Families referred from FOM or directly from MDT.
Status: Planning complete (open to Cobh/Glanmire/City North East & West).
Pilot: Successfully completed in Cobh/Glanmire sector with author and Sinead Lawless.
Focus: Recovery orientated support group – content is participant driven and guided
within the parameters of discussion and support.
Evaluated by families.
Advantages: Research evidence suggests that professionally facilitated support groups
assist families in the crisis and post crisis situations. Support groups are also cost
effective.
Developed by: Orla Bushnell
Facilitated by Orla Bushnell with Sinead Lawless, Karen Reidy and Michelle Donnellan
Tier Three:
Name: Family Intervention Meetings
Target: Families in crisis referred from MDT
Sessions: 5 Family Intervention Meetings
after initial assessment meeting (6 in total)
Focus on: family communication whilst
promoting social functioning, emotional
support, familial education and problem
solving.
Developed & facilitated by Orla Bushnell
Additional case management support- UCC
Tier Three:
Name: Individual Family Therapy Sessions
Target: Families who have come through
phase one and two or three and require
further assistance.
Status: Planning Complete.
Focus: Family assessment followed by a
subsequent offer of Family Therapy.
Referrals from the MDT.
Evaluated by families.
Therapist: Orla Bushnell. Supervision in
UCD and case management in NLMHS