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Mental Health Provider Experience

2.Mental Health Provider survey

NAMI Minnesota wants to learn more about your experience working collaboratively with people being treated for mental illnesses and their family members and friends. We will use the information to help break down barriers that prevent the helpful involvement of family and friends in providing support and hope to their loved one.
1.Which of the following best describes your role in providing treatment?(Required.)
2.When working with patients who have a mental illness do you:
Always
Almost Always
Sometimes
Infrequently
Almost Never
Never
Communicate that treatment can lead to recovery?
Display posters of successful people who live/lived with mental illnesses?
Have educational material on mental illnesses readily available?
Treat patients with respect and empathy?
Encourage patients to involve family and friends in their recovery?
Connect patients with support groups and resources in the community?
Discuss options for follow-up treatment?
Explain medications that are given and the possible side effects?
Treat them as you would a patient with any other illness or injury?
Encourage them to sign a privacy release to keep their family informed and involved?
3.When talking with the family members and friends of a patient do you:
Always
Almost Always
Sometimes
Infrequently
Almost Never
Never
Provide education on mental illnesses and treatments?
Have a supply of educational material readily available in the waiting room?
Connect families with support groups and resources in the community?
Instill in them hope for the recovery of their loved one?
If permission has been given, do you ask family members for input into the planning of treatment for their loved one?
Treat all family members with respect and empathy?
Encourage them to send cards and flowers as they would if their loved one had any other illness or injury?
Educate families on how to keep their loved one safe (removal of guns, large amounts of medications, etc.)
4.Do you have suggestions on what individuals and their family members can do to improve their experiences working with providers?
5.What are the barriers you experience when involving friends and family?
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