Evaluators and assessment process in Person-centred Integrative Diagnosis

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Published: Jun 25, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v2i2.217
Keywords:
Mental health partnership for evaluation people-centered care person-centered integrative diagnosis person-centered medicine shared clinical decision-making Trialogue

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Janet Wallcraft
Centre for Mental Health Recovery, University of Hertfordshire; and Centre for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health, University of Birmingham
Michaela Amering
Sigrid Steffen
Ihsan M. Salloum

Abstract

'Partnership for Evaluation' is one of the pillars of the person-centered integrative diagnosis (PID) model. Its importance is in enabling the assessment and evaluation of the problems and needs of health service users and it is fundamental to the development of more person-centered approaches in clinical practice. The need for clinicians, support professionals and service users to work in partnership is vital to effective service delivery and in the improvement of patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes. International work on Trialogue, the process whereby clinicians, patients and family members meet for informal discussion, has demonstrated the multiple benefits of this approach. Research and policy in the UK and in Europe more generally has made significant advances in developing the means of creating successful partnerships of this nature. The current article reviews the conceptual basis of partnership as part of person-centered integrative diagnosis and treatment, discusses how we can improve genuine partnership work in the evaluation and assessment of mental health and presents examples of policy support for partnership working. It is concluded that shared decision-making and partnership can lead to better and more acceptable systems of wellness-focussed treatment and more responsible citizenship where people make better health choices and learn to care for themselves and those around them.

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Issue
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2012): June
Section
Fourth Geneva Conference on Person-centered Medicine: Person-centered integrative diagnosis (PID)
Author Biography

Janet Wallcraft, Centre for Mental Health Recovery, University of Hertfordshire; and Centre for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health, University of Birmingham

Janet Wallcraft has a BSc Hons (1st Class) in Science Technology & Society (1987)  and a Postgrad Diploma Social Sciences Research (1989) from Middlesex University, London, and PhD from South Bank University, London (2002) on mental health service users first experiences of breakdown and treatment. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health Recovery, University of Hertfordshire, and an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health, University of Birmingham. She has been a long-term consultant and researcher on the experiences of people who use or receive mental health services, working for leading NGOs and Government organisations in England and Wales. 

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