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Table 1 Components of Relational Team Development (RELATED) and Standard Practice Facilitation

From: Mixed method evaluation of Relational Team Development (RELATED) to improve team-based care for complex patients with mental illness in primary care

 

RELATED

Standard Practice Facilitation

PCP Clinical Supervision and Coaching (Coaching)

Practice Change Activity Team (PCAT)

Description

Facilitator observes PCPs in 4+ visits with complex patients; facilitator uses clinical psychology and coaching techniques during 1-on-1 debriefs with PCPs.

Facilitator guides implementation of a practice change; in this process, maladaptive team dynamics are identified and addressed.

Facilitator guides implement-ation of a practice change and builds internal capacity for improvement activities.

Participants

• PCPs

• Patients whose visits are observed

• Clinic team (i.e., PCPs and staff representatives, leadership)

• Patient representatives

• Clinic team (i.e., PCP and staff representatives, leadership)

Implementation Factors

Distinguishing Features

Mental Illness Management

⇒ Knowledge

⇒ Skills

⇒ Communciation

• Diagnostic and treatment feedback

• Didactics tailored to individual knowledge gaps

• Patient communication practice

• Multicultural case discussion

• Tailored group didactics on mental illness

• Communication practice

 

Practical

⇒ Quality improvement processes

⇒ Practice monitoring systems

⇒ Improvement Plans

⇒ Modified Workflows

• Use of interdisciplinary team and available mental health resources

Training:

• Quality improvement methods

• Measurement-Based Care (MBC)

Facilitation:

• Assess current system

• Create improvement plan (for MBC)

• Implement improvement plan (for MBC)

• Evaluate/modify improvement plan targeting sustainability

Psyschosocial

⇒ Interpersonal relationships

⇒ Clinic Culture

⇒ Attitudes

⇒ Role change

⇒ Role clarity

Interpersonal focus on:

• Emotional reactions

• Self and other awareness

• Attitudes towards team-based care

• Experience of clinic culture

Team dynamics focus on:

• Non-hierarchical communication and leadership behaviors

• Creating mutually agreed upon processes

• Role clarity

• Psychological safety

• Past practice change experiences

Group process emphasizing:

• Role clarity

• Communication workflows

• Team-building activites

  1. Bolded text indicated shared features