1. Cara Maddison Specialist Occupational Therapist
How meaningful is an occupational focused outcome measure to young people accessing occupational therapy group work in a Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service
Cara Maddison Specialist Occupational Therapist
Professor Susan Corr

2. Background Mental health problems affect (Green et al 2004)
Need to build up EVIDENCE BASE (Doh 2015)
Outcome measures = Tool to do this (Unsworth 2011)
Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) (Law et al 2005)

3. Literature review
Outcome measures need to be BENIFICIAL & MEANINGFUL (Fuller 2011)
Previous Research focused on;
- Therapist view of COPM
- Service users views Sparse
- No Studies young people in CAMHS

4. MEANINGFUL & USEFUL to therapeutic Process
Aims of project
Understand how
MEANINGFUL & USEFUL to therapeutic Process
VOICE
I think..
And if and where changes needed to be made.

5. Semi Structured interviews
METHODOLOGY
Qualitative approach
Purposive Sample
Semi Structured interviews
5 young people
Thematic Analysis

6. Results COPM Process New & Unfamiliar Initial reservations
↓ Goal setting experience
Purpose & Direction
Personal achievement
Resilience

7. Conclusion / Implications
COPM – Valued & Positive Experience
to other groups
Systematic approach
Demonstrate effectiveness
Informed goal setting ↑

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10. Background