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Although the literature on ‘effective’ interventions for people with schizophrenia is slowly increasing, there is a dearth of guidance for practitioners struggling with the day-to-day implementation of these specific approaches. In the current move towards evidence-based practice, emphasis on the outcome of different interventions has led to the neglect of accounts describing the process of their delivery. Central to this process is the relationship between mental health worker and service user. Indeed, the successful delivery of any intervention depends upon this relationship, yet little has been written about the development of helpful relationships with people who have serious mental health problems, or the effect of the relationship on service user defined outcome.
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Repper, J. (2002). The Helping Relationship. In: Harris, N., Williams, S., Bradshaw, T. (eds) Psychosocial Interventions for People with Schizophrenia. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-3759-9_4
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