There is often a crucial difference in the evidence of best practice and the care delivered in mental health settings, particularly in relation to change.
This assessment requires you to review and discuss an area where there is a difference and discuss why this is so.
This brief discussion requires you to provide a synopsis of your findings.
1. Critically contrast the findings from the literature with that of current practice and /or policy in clinical settings.
Assessment details
Participate in the following discussion board topic by performing the following steps:
Choose an area where practice may lag behind evidence. For example:
• Identification and treatment of addiction in mental health contexts
• Lived experience of mental ill health in the workforce
• Management of the effects of Psychological Trauma experienced as a child in clinical practice
Briefly identify the evidence and critically debate why there is a practice gap between evidence and clinical practice
