Part 3: Staff of an Occupational Therapy Unit as Part of a Multidisciplinary Behaviour Therapy Team

Abstract

An approach to the multidisciplinary staffing of a behaviour therapy project carried out with long-stay mentally ill patients is described. Financial and recruiting constraints allowed little scope for selection or appointment of ‘special’ staff. A solution was sought in in-service training for staff already in post, some of whom were not professionally qualified and practically all of whom had no previous experience in behaviour therapy.