Biomedical subjects

A N Garman

Publications and source records attributed to A N Garman.

7 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1999

Transformational and transactional leadership skills for mental health teams.

Many treatments for persons with severe mental illness are provided by mental health teams. Team members work better when led by effective leaders. Research conducted by organizational psychologists, and validated on mental health teams, have identified a variety of skills that are useful for these leaders. Bass (1990, 1997) identified two sets of especially important skills related to transformational and transactional leadership. Leaders using transformational skills help team members to view their work from more elevated perspectives and develop innovative ways to deal with work-related problems. Skills related to transformational leadership promote inspiration, intellectual stimulation, individual consideration, participative decision making, and elective delegation. Mental health and rehabilitation teams must not only develop creative and innovative programs, they must maintain them over time as a series of leader-team member transactions. Transactional leadership skills include goal-setting, feedback, and reinforcement strategies which help team members maintain effective programs.

Decision Making↗

PubMed1999

Management coursework in graduate behavioral health programs.

Many behavioral health professionals eventually assume managerial roles; therefore the extent to which graduate behavioral health programs adequately prepare them for these roles is of concern. To examine this issue, directors from graduate behavioral health training programs were surveyed about whether organizational behavior coursework was routinely provided to their students. Results indicated that while this coursework was provided in most social work and psychiatric nursing programs, only a minority of clinical psychology and psychiatry residency programs offered it. These findings suggest that psychiatrists and psychologists may need more preparation than their non-doctoral-level colleagues to assume administrative positions, and that health administration programs may do well to develop continuing education programs geared specifically toward these groups.

Administrative Personnel↗

PubMed1998

Results of a job analysis of psychologists working in state hospitals.

The graduate training of psychologists should prepare them for central roles in state hospitals, especially roles involving direct patient care and supervision of colleagues. To what extent do actual job practices match graduate preparation? To find out, 55 psychologists from 12 state hospitals in the Midwest were surveyed regarding their educational backgrounds and time currently spent in various job activities. Results indicated that paperwork consumes more time than any other activity, followed by therapeutic services, psychological assessment, supervision, and case management. Almost 50% of the sample was trained under a cognitive-behavioral orientation; however, more than 60% of survey participants now practice according to eclectic models. These results imply that psychologists in these settings may not be utilized to their full potential because of a variety of organizational constraints.

Administrative Personnel↗

PubMed1998

Developing effective team leaders.

For most staff, the most challenging leadership role they will play is their first. This chapter describes a research-based training program being developed to help these leaders increase their effectiveness in this first role.

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PubMed1998

What mental health teams want in their leaders.

The authors present the findings of the first phase of a 3-year study developing a skills training curriculum for mental health team leaders. A factor model empirically generated from clinical team members was compared to Bass' (1990) Multifactor Model of Leadership. Members of mental health teams generated individual responses to questions about effective leaders. Results from this survey were subsequently administered to a sample of mental health team members. Analysis of these data yielded six factors: Autocratic Leadership, Clear Roles and Goals, Reluctant Leadership, Vision, Diversity Issues, and Supervision. Additional analyses suggest Bass' Multifactor Model offers a useful paradigm for developing a curriculum specific to the needs of mental health team leaders.

Adult↗

PubMed1997

How mental health and developmental disabilities staff prioritize training and development needs.

This paper contrasts a staff training needs assessment distributed to three groups: staff serving persons with mental health needs in the community, staff serving persons with mental health needs in state hospitals, and staff serving persons with developmental disabilities in the community. Analyses revealed that all three groups rated team-related training as the area in greatest need of development. Further analyses suggested that community staff serving persons with developmental disabilities reported significantly less need for training on direct client care compared to community and inpatient staff who serve persons with mental health needs. The community staff serving persons with mental health needs did not differ significantly from the inpatient staff on any of the surveyed training areas. Results suggest that future development efforts should begin with team building skills.

Adult↗

PubMed1997

Considerations for research on consumer empowerment and psychosocial interventions.

Consumer empowerment is a political movement that, among many goals, seeks to diminish the stigma and discrimination experienced by people with severe and persistent psychiatric disorders. This paper reviews research strategies that address the methodological problems of studying consumer empowerment. Key issues include defining the subject of investigation, describing consumer-developed treatments using discovery-oriented research strategies, and sorting out the diverse roles of consumers in contemporary psychosocial programs. Consumer empowerment introduces a political paradigm into the understanding of severe mental illness, a paradigm that can be difficult to integrate with the goals of empirical research.

Empiricism↗