Main description:

A valuable resource for psychiatrists and other mental health service providers wanting to use person-centered approaches

Holistic approach to mental health care

Practical tools for service users and providers

Illustrated with case examples

Full of printable handouts

Person-centered mental health care is essential for keeping service users at the center of care. This handbook uses practical examples across clinical care, research, education, and healthcare administration to illustrate how to implement person-centered approaches for clients with serious mental health challenges. Looking at the different service points that this growing population of clients encounter enables service providers to see how to implement holistic person-centered care in an effective manner.

Each chapter follows a concrete case example exploring different techniques, tools, and resources that can be used by service users and service providers. An appendix provides the handouts in printable form. Written by experts in person-centered care with diverse experiences with mental health-related practices and policies, this comprehensive handbook is a valuable resource for psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners, researchers, educators, and policy makers who work with people with serious mental health challenges as well as for service users themselves.

Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Foundations
Mental Health Challenges and the Person-Centered Approach
Benefits and Challenges of the Person-
Centered Approach
Person-Centered Approach Applications
Chapter Conclusion
2 A Person-Centered Approach to Clinical
Care for Mental Health Challenges
Introduction
Clinical Relationships
Clinical Communication
Cultural Care
Family-Centered Care
Co-Occurring (Concurrent) Disorders
Adolescents
Dual Diagnosis
Forensic Care
Older Adults
Chapter Conclusion
3 A Person-Centered Approach to Research
on Mental Health Challenges
Introduction
Research - What Is the Problem?
Research Relationships
Collaborative Roles in Research
Planning and Implementing Research
Research Communication
Why Should People and Agencies Participate
in Research?
Chapter Conclusion
4 A Person-Centered Approach to Education
on Mental Health Challenges
Introduction
Shared Decision Making
Family Education
Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and
Continuing Health Care Education
Public Education
Chapter Conclusion
5 A Person-Centered Approach to Mental
Health Care Leadership
Introduction
What Is Person-Centered Leadership?
Becoming a Reflective Leader
Developing and Leading Service User-
Centered Teams
Emotional Intelligence
Generative Relationships
Leading Person-Centered Change
Shifting to Strength-Based Models for
Change
The Challenge of Large-Scale System
Change
Chapter Conclusion
6 Conclusion
Clinical Care
Research
Education
Health Care Administration
Appendix: Tools and Resources
Nosheen Akhtar, MScOT, Corrections
Psychological Health Unit,
Ontario Public Service, Toronto,
ON
Katherine McKay, MD, assistant
clinical professor, Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences,
McMaster University,
Hamilton, ON
Cheryl Forchuk,