Adapting and Implementing Open Dialogue in the Scandinavian Countries: A Scoping Review

abstract

Open Dialogue is a resource-oriented mental health approach, which mobilises a crisis-struck person's psychosocial network resources. This scoping review 1) identifies the range and nature of literature on the adoption of Open Dialogue in Scandinavia in places other than the original sites in Finland, and 2) summarises this literature. We included 33 publications. Most studies in this scoping review were published as “grey” literature and most grappled with how to implement Open Dialogue faithfully. In the Scandinavian research context, Open Dialogue was mainly described as a promising and favourable approach to mental health care.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the five stakeholder reviewers for their constructive feedback on an earlier version of the review: Dorthe Mohr, Flick Grey, Grethe Thygesen Rasmussen, Judith M. Brown, and Kristof Mikes-Liu.

Declaration of interest

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

Funding

The St. Vincent's Chair of Mental Health Nursing and the Centre for Family-Based Mental Health Care are generously supported by The Grant Family Charitable Trust and the Michael Crouch Family Trust.