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A Comparison Of Two Coaching Approaches To Enhance Implementation Of A Recovery-Oriented Service Model, Frank Deane, Retta Andresen, Trevor Crowe, Lindsay Oades, Joseph Ciarrochi, Virginia Williams

joseph Ciarrochi

Moving to recovery-oriented service provision in mental health may entail retraining existing staff, as well as training new staff. This represents a substantial burden on organisations, particularly since transfer of training into practice is often poor. Follow-up supervision and/or coaching have been found to improve the implementation and sustainment of new approaches. We compared the effect of two coaching conditions, skills-based and transformational coaching, on the implementation of a recovery-oriented model following training. Training followed by coaching led to significant sustained improvements in the quality of care planning in accordance with the new model over the 12-month study period. No …