Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 December 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Mental Health Services: Discussion

10:00 am

Professor Joyce O'Connor:

I can get information on what is happening at present for Deputy Neville. He asked about CAPA. CAPA is a training programme for staff from multidisciplinary areas to work together. It is based on staff understanding their roles, having respect for one another and learning to work together in an appropriate fashion. It is an extensive programme and it is very effective. It is evidence-based. It shows that if staff are trained effectively to work together in multidisciplinary teams - my colleagues here referred to different models of care and in this model of care, everybody has a position - no one person is above another. They work together and they work on their particular expertise and resources at an appropriate time and place.

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