Publications by authors named "Rob Bale"
Article Synopsis
- The COVID-19 pandemic forced mental health services globally to adapt by shifting from in-person to virtual methods of care to comply with safety restrictions.
- A systematic review was conducted to analyze how mental health services changed during the first year of the pandemic, focusing on quantitative studies published up to April 2021.
- Out of over 24,000 records, 101 papers were included; findings indicated that face-to-face services decreased significantly, while telemental health usage surged, often corresponding with the level of government restrictions in place.
Background: A durable therapeutic relationship is central to mental health practice. The Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) and the Helping Alliance Questionnaire (HAQ) are established instruments for measuring such a relationship.
Aims: The project aimed to test the correlation between the two scales for patients with severe psychotic illness treated in an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team.