Conceptualizing healthcare professionals' relational competence in mental healthcare: An integrative review.

Introduction: The relationship between patients and mental health professionals is the cornerstone of all mental health treatment, and good patient-professional relationships are associated with several positive therapeutic outcomes for patients with mental health challenges. Mental health professionals' relational competence is essential for high-quality services in mental healthcare. There is currently no unified understanding of the concept of relational competence.

Medication-free mental health treatment: a focus group study of milieu therapeutic settings.

Background: Medication-free treatment within mental health care aims to offer therapeutic support as an alternative to psychotropic medication. Introducing milieu therapy for severely mentally ill persons in a medication-free unit requires significant changes to the traditional medication-based psychiatric setting. The present study examines how milieu therapists experience working with medication-free treatment for people with severe mental health challenges.

Patients' Experiences of Participating Actively in Shared Decision-Making in Mental Care.

Background: Patients in mental care express a wish for more active participation. Shared decision-making is a way of increasing patient participation. There is lack of research into what the shared decision-making process means and how the patients can participate in and experience it in the context of mental care.

Being in a space of sharing decision-making for dignified mental care.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Several studies describe barriers and facilitators for implementing shared decision-making in mental care, yet a deeper understanding of the meaning of shared decision-making in this context is lacking. Shared decision-making is aimed at facilitating patients' active participation in their care. Mental care is intended to empower the patients by increasing their responsibility and self-awareness and helping them to use their own resources.