Evaluating the impact of team formulation on client care in a rehabilitation hospital for individuals with learning disabilities

Abstract

Team formulation helps staff understand people they work with better, and agree ideas to support them.Positive monitoring is a way of checking if staff are helping people in the ways agreed by the team.This evaluation aims to see if using team formulation and positive monitoring, has an impact on the care provided to adults with learning disabilities in a locked rehabilitation hospital.Staff found team formulation helpful in understanding the person they were working with better. The helpfulness of setting goals on staffing putting ideas into practice varied.Six out of Seven adults with learning disabilities had less incidents after we used positive monitoring charts