Objectives: Staff working in mental health services provide care for individuals with a variety of difficulties, which can pose treatment challenges. Perceived lack of progress in patients can engender uncomfortable feelings within the clinician, such as frustration, 'heartsink' and 'feeling stuck'. The aim of this study was to explore the phenomenon of 'feeling stuck' amongst NCHDs in psychiatry.
Methods: A total of 30 participants were recruited from three psychiatric hospitals to complete a 15-item questionnaire. The survey was designed to pursue a thematic analysis. Participants were asked to complete the survey anonymously, either online or paper version. The analysis was carried out by two researchers using open coding, with themes finalised through collective discourse.
Results: Three themes were elicited from the data. The central theme - 'causes of feeling stuck' - consisted of three subthemes (patient, doctor and system factors). Participants were adept at describing patient and system factors, but reflected on doctor factors, such as countertransference, less often and in less detail. Other themes, explored in less detail by respondents, were 'the experience of feeling stuck' and 'responses to feeling stuck', with participants tending to seek solutions to, rather than an understanding of, these feelings.
Conclusions: Trainee psychiatrists can clearly identify the situations where they are 'stuck' with clinical interactions. In spite of clinical supervision and reflective practice groups, they desire further training in managing these scenarios. NCHDs would benefit from further training, using these 'stuck' interactions as material, to further develop their understanding of the underlying factors in both themselves and their patients.
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