Themes | Participants response examples | Number | Percent |
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Facilitators | |||
Dedication of team members | “Motivated clinicians willing to go above and beyond the call of duty” | 26 | 38.3 |
Support from management and wider team | “Support from management, understanding of service need for this therapy” | 18 | 26.5 |
Having an effective Team Leader | “A strong dedicated team-leader, who is a definite believer and advocate of DBT and generous with her time in supporting the team and project” | 9 | 13.2 |
Supervision | “...external supervision has increased motivation” | 7 | 10.3 |
Training | “The two week training provided a strong immersion in DBT” | 7 | 10.3 |
Barriers | |||
Lack of support from management | “Management not providing infrastructure, fighting for room space to run programme...” | 28 | 41.2 |
Logistical challenges | “Difficulty in finding appropriate space to accommodate numbers of DBT clients attending” “Lack of monetary support for equipment and refreshments etc.” | 15 | 22.1 |
Time commitment and balancing of other roles | “Lack of cover for caseload while implementing DBT meaning need to carry previous load as well as DBT increasing possibility of burn-out” | 12 | 17.7 |
Staffing resources including attrition | “Clinicians who are DBT trained have left the service which has made it more difficult to successfully implement DBT” | 9 | 13.2 |