Promoting psychosocial approaches for more compassionate mental health services

Liberati and colleagues’ recent article on the need to embed compassion in mental health services resonated with our experiences.1 Achieving this will require the skills of a range of professions to be used and promoted. Anecdotally and supported in research, medical perspectives dominate in services, in terms of both those holding influential positions of power and the overall culture and practice approaches of teams.234 As …