You're on the Team: Helpful Resources

Helpful Resources

Shared decision-making in mental health treatment

SAMHSA resources:

• Examples of self-help programs
• Shared Decision Making in Mental Health Care, Practice, Research and Future Directions, 2007 report
• Introduction to Shared Decision Making in Mental Health, webinar with Patricia Deegan and Laurie Curtis
• Patricia Deegan: CommonGroundarticle on CommonGround
• Center for Informed Medical Decisions: Shared Decision-making
• Center for Shared Decision Making

Decision Aids:

• SAMHSA Examples of Mental Health Decision Aids
• Choices in recovery.com Mental health work sheets
• Ottawa Health Research Institute: patient decision aids
• Decision aids and informed patient choice

Patients

Set goals and plan for recovery:

• Mental Health America’s guide to recovery
• Mental health work sheets on seeing a doctor, setting goals, and more
• Create your own Wellness Recovery Action Plan
• Recovering Your Mental Health--A Self-help Guide
• Action planning for Wellness and Recovery--A Self-help Guide
• Recovery and Wellness Lifestyle--A Self-help Guide

Workbooks from the UIC Mental Health Services Research Center
This is Your Life! Creating a Self-Directed Life Plan OTH-033; $10.00
Raising Difficult Issues with Your Service Provider OTH-031; $5.00
Contact Tina Carter at 312-413-3526

Create a psychiatric advance directive:

• MyPlanMyLife
• National Resource Center for Psychiatric Advance Directives

Learn about your mental health condition:

• Mental Health America: mental health information
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America

Find a support group

• Mental Health America: find a support group
• National Mental Health Consumers Clearinghouse:  directory of consumer-driven services

Doctors

• Talk about it: Shared decision-making communication skills for providers and helpers
• Interventions for improving adaption of shared decision making
• Patient preferences in shared decision-making
• Disengagement From Mental Health Treatment Among Individuals With Schizophrenia and Strategies for Facilitating Connections to Care: A Review of the Literature