Health services are subject to frequent changes. Most of the mental health practices have been affected by traditions as well as other haphazard trial and error methods instead of established scientific evidence. Some of the challenges in mental health services are still due to staff perceptions where many objective barriers to change in acute ward settings such as limited resources, intermediate leadership, violence, etc. However, despite these perceptions and old traditions, there are possible ways to overcome them, some of which have been put into place (The challenge of change in acute mental health services, 2014) . This paper explores and analyzes some potential barriers towards the implementation of mental health Evidence-Based Practice as well as the strategies to overcome them.
The potential barriers identified in the implementation of the mental health EBP include The nature of the evidence in mental psychology, the contribution of the mental health staff to the evidence-based practice, personal characteristics of the mental health officers and organizational factors (Barriers to Evidence-Based Practice, 2014) .
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The challenge now remains on how to build up concrete strategies on how to allow mental health attendants to provide EBP care as a portion of daily performance. However in order to overcome these barriers possible solutions include the adaptation of a more dynamic type of mental health EBP, increasing the number of mental health researchers, conducting clinical research projects, training mental health officers on necessary skills, integration of the EBP principles into the mental health curricula, as well as offering organizational facilitators ( Canady, 2015) .
The strategic link between barriers, implementation as well as the outcomes is always the key towards settling the implementation climate in mental health EBP. Emotional alterations of the working staff due to service changes also have its own attention in regard to how the staff perceives the change.
References
Barriers to Evidence-Based Practice Utilization in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing. (2014, February 1). Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260119065_Barriers_to_Evidence-Based_Practice_Utilization_in_PsychiatricMental_Health_Nursing
Canady, V. A. (2015). Online training in EBP comparable to in-person instruction. Mental Health Weekly , 25 (19), 6-7. doi:10.1002/mhw.30181
The challenge of change in acute mental health services: measuring staff perceptions of barriers to change and their relationship to job status and satisfaction using a new measure (VOCALISE). (2014, February 20). Retrieved from https://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1748-5908-9-23
