Attachment to the clinical team and its association with therapeutic relationships, social networks, and clinical well-being.

Objectives: To determine (1) inter-relationships between social network size and quality and therapeutic relationship ratings and (2) inter-relationships between attachment style, team attachment, therapeutic relationships, social networks, and clinical and social functioning.

Design: A cross-sectional survey.

Method: A sample of 93 people using community mental health teams were assessed on their attachment status, social networks, relationship to the keyworker, attachment to the team, characteristics, and clinical and social functioning.

Continuity of care for people with psychotic illness: its relationship to clinical and social functioning.

Background: The relationship between continuity of care and user characteristics or outcomes has rarely been explored. The ECHO study operationalized and tested a multi-axial definition of continuity of care, producing a seven-factor model used here.

Aims: To assess the relationship between user characteristics and established components of continuity of care, and the impact of continuity on clinical and social functioning.

Continuity of care for people with non-psychotic disorders.

Background: Service users with non-psychotic disorders are rarely studied. How continuity of care functions for this group is unknown.

Aims: To compare users of community mental health teams with non-psychotic disorders to those with psychotic disorders in terms of demographic and illness characteristics, continuity of care and clinical and social functioning.