Approved Mental Health Professionals: A Jack of all Trades? Hybrid Professional Roles within a Mental Health Occupation

Leah, Caroline (2020) Approved Mental Health Professionals: A Jack of all Trades? Hybrid Professional Roles within a Mental Health Occupation. Qualitative Social Work, 19 (5-6). pp. 987-1006. ISSN 1473-3250

Preview

Accepted Version
Download (655kB) | Preview

Official URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1473...

Abstract

This article presents findings from the Hybrid Identities Project (HIP) that investigated the professional role and identities of ten multi-professional Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) from social work, mental health nursing and occupational therapy backgrounds as hybrid professionals. Hybrid professionals are professionals of a mixed origin who work across several roles and areas of expertise within public services. AMHPs have a legal role within the Mental Health Act 1983 (2007) in England and Wales to plan the assessment of individuals who require care and treatment for a mental disorder. An intrinsic case study approach was undertaken with data generated through semi-structured interviews that examined professional hybridisation, illustrated through AMHPs’ enactment of eight hybrid roles. The article contributes to empirical understandings of AMHP professional practice through advancing ideas about role hybridisation within a previously under-researched mental health occupation.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2019 08:45
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Additional Information:	This is an Author Accepted Manuscript of a paper accepted for publication by SAGE Publications in Qualitative Social Work.
Divisions:	Faculties > Health and Education Research Centres > Health, Psychology and Communities
Subject terms:	Social Sciences, Social Work, Approved Mental Health Professional Role, Mental Health Social Work, hybrid professional, mental health roles, Mental Health Act Assessments, EDUCATIONAL-RESEARCH, SOCIAL-WORKERS, IDENTITY, MODEL, 1606 Political Science, 1607 Social Work
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/623787
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325019873385
ISSN	1473-3250

Impact and Reach

Statistics

DownloadsShow export options

Activity Overview

6 month trend

793Downloads

6 month trend

315Hits

Additional statistics for this dataset are available via IRStats2.

Altmetric

Repository staff only

Edit record