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- Informational brochure
This brochure briefly explains shared decision making to a general audience. - Shared Decision Making: Making Recovery Real in Mental Health
This general audience issue brief provides the background, conceptual framework, and research support for shared decision making in mental health.
- Culture Counts: Enhancing the Shared Decision Making Process
This general audience issue brief focuses on how to use shared decision making approaches to help make treatment and service decisions more culturally relevant to individuals.
- Your Right to Choose: Using Shared Decision Making to Support Your Recovery
This issue brief introduces shared decision to people using mental health services and explains why they should get involved in making important decisions about their mental health treatment and support. - Taking Charge of Your Recovery: Tips for People who Use Mental Health Services
This brochure provides 4 important ways individuals can take a more active role in decision making to get the mental health treatment and services they want. - Decision Aid Video
This 5-minute dramatization illustrates use of a computer-based decision aid with peer support and how it can be incorporated into conversations with a doctor. Video shows a young woman discussing her concerns about medication with her psychiatrist. - Workbook Video
This 5-minute video is a dramatization illustrating how the two decision support workbooks can be used to help an individual to make a difficult decision. Video shows a young man making a decision about housing and discussing the decision with a peer support worker and his mother.
- Shared Decision Making:
Your Right, Your Choice, Your Recovery
This short 10-minute video helps introduce shared decision making to people who use mental health services and explains why it is important to get involved in decisions about their treatment and recovery goals.
Video Guide
To order the video DVD, go to:
http://store.samhsa.gov/ - What Is Right For Me? How to Make Important Decisions in Everyday Life.
Step-by-Step Approach.
This workbook is designed to help individuals make a difficult decision. It includes step-by-step guidance and worksheets for making the decision as well as for talking to others about the decision. It teaches and supports basic skills of decision making. - Cool Tools: One or two page worksheets on specific topics that can be printed and used in multiple ways.
- Webinars: A series of three webinars are available introducing shared decision making and exploring the perspectives of both people who use and those who provide mental health treatment and services.
- Culture Counts: Enhancing the Shared Decision Making Process
This general audience issue brief focuses on how to use shared decision making approaches to help make treatment and service decisions more culturally relevant to individuals. - Honoring Individual Preferences: Shared Decision Making in Everyday Practice
This provider-focused issue brief identifies some key elements and tools of shared decision making. It explores staff roles and the skills needed to support the process. - Using Shared Decision Making
in Your Practice: Tips for Mental Health Service Providers
This brochure provides 6 tips to help providers effectively involve people using services in decision making about mental health treatment and services. - Decision Aid Video
This 5-minute dramatization illustrates use of a computer-based decision aid with peer support and how it can be incorporated into conversations with a doctor. Video shows a young woman discussing her concerns about medication with her psychiatrist. - Workbook Video
This 5-minute video is a dramatization illustrating how the two decision support workbooks can be used to help an individual to make a difficult decision. Video shows a young man making a decision about housing and discussing the decision with a peer support worker and his mother.
- Shared Decision Making: An Emerging Best Practice in Mental Health Services
This 10-minute video invites mental health providers to learn more about shared decision making and learn how to integrate it into organizational policy and practice.
Video Guide
To order the video DVD, go to:
http://store.samhsa.gov/ - Supporting Choice:
Helping Others Make Important Decisions. A Step-by-Step Approach.
This workbook parallels and can be used as a companion to the workbook for individuals, What is Right for Me? It is geared to supporters who may want or need to help someone make an important or difficult decision. - Cool Tools: One or two page worksheets on specific topics that can be printed and used in multiple ways.
- Podcast: Shared Decision Making in Mental Health: A Provider's Perspective - September 2010. This 15-minute podcast gives providers a broader understanding of how shared decision making works and address some of the common questions mental health providers have about implementing Shared Decision Making in their own practice.
- Webinars: A series of three webinars are available introducing shared decision making and exploring the perspectives of both people who use and those who provide mental health treatment and services.
- Culture Counts: Enhancing the Shared Decision Making Process
This general audience issue brief focuses on how to use shared decision making approaches to help make treatment and service decisions more culturally relevant to individuals. - Collaborating for Recovery: Shared Decision Making and Psychiatric Medication
This issue brief for prescribers and other medical staff presents how shared decision making can be used to enhance clinical relationships and decisions about medications. It addresses some common concerns about the practice in mental health. - Using Shared Decision Making
in Your Practice: Tips for Mental Health Service Providers
This brochure provides 6 tips to help providers effectively involve people using services in decision making about mental health treatment and services. - Decision Aid Video
This 5-minute dramatization illustrates use of a computer-based decision aid with peer support and how it can be incorporated into conversations with a doctor. Video shows a young woman discussing her concerns about medication with her psychiatrist.
- Shared Decision Making: An Emerging Best Practice in Mental Health Services
This 10-minute video invites mental health providers to learn more about shared decision making and learn how to integrate it into organizational policy and practice.
Video Guide
To order the video DVD, go to:
http://store.samhsa.gov/ - Cool Tools: One or two page worksheets on specific topics that can be printed and used in multiple ways.
- Podcast: Shared Decision Making in Mental Health: A Provider's Perspective - September 2010. This 15-minute podcast gives providers a broader understanding of how shared decision making works and address some of the common questions mental health providers have about implementing Shared Decision Making in their own practice.
- Webinars: A series of three webinars are available introducing shared decision making and exploring the perspectives of both people who use and those who provide mental health treatment and services.
- Innovations in Practice: Shared Decision Making in Mental Health
This administrator-focused issue brief discusses the benefits of systemic use of shared decision making in an organization and how the approach can be introduced into an agency. - Bringing Shared Decision Making
to Your Organizations: Tips for Mental Health Administrators
This brochure provides 4 strategies to help administrators integrate shared decision making into mental health service organizations.
- Shared Decision Making: An Emerging Best Practice in Mental Health Services
This 10-minute video invites mental health providers to learn more about shared decision making and learn how to integrate it into organizational policy and practice.
Video Guide
To order the video DVD, go to:
http://store.samhsa.gov/
Brochure
- Informational brochure
This brochure briefly explains shared decision making to a general audience.
Issue Briefs
- Shared Decision Making: Making Recovery Real in Mental Health
This general audience issue brief provides the background, conceptual framework, and research support for shared decision making in mental health. - Culture Counts: Enhancing the Shared Decision Making Process
This general audience issue brief focuses on how to use shared decision making approaches to help make treatment and service decisions more culturally relevant to individuals. - Your Right to Choose: Using Shared Decision Making to Support Your Recovery
This issue brief introduces shared decision to people using mental health services and explains why they should get involved in making important decisions about their mental health treatment and support. - Honoring Individual Preferences: Shared Decision Making in Everyday Practice
This provider-focused issue brief identifies some key elements and tools of shared decision making. It explores staff roles and the skills needed to support the process. - Innovations in Practice: Shared Decision Making in Mental Health
This administrator-focused issue brief discusses the benefits of systemic use of shared decision making in an organization and how the approach can be introduced into an agency. - Collaborating for Recovery: Shared Decision Making and Psychiatric Medications
This issue brief for prescribers and other medical staff presents how shared decision making can be used to enhance clinical relationships and decisions about medications. It addresses some common concerns about the practice in mental health.
Tip Sheets
- Taking Charge of Your Recovery: Tips for People who Use Mental Health Services
This brochure provides 4 important ways individuals can take a more active role in decision making to get the mental health treatment and services they want. - Using Shared Decision Making
in Your Practice: Tips for Mental Health Service Providers
This brochure provides 6 tips to help providers effectively involve people using services in decision making about mental health treatment and services. - Bringing Shared Decision Making
to Your Organizations: Tips for Mental Health Administrators
This brochure provides 4 strategies to help administrators integrate shared decision making into mental health service organizations.
Workbooks
- What Is Right For Me? How to Make Important Decisions in Everyday Life.
Step-by-Step Approach.
This workbook is designed to help individuals make a difficult decision. It includes step-by-step guidance and worksheets for making the decision as well as for talking to others about the decision. It teaches and supports basic skills of decision making. - Supporting Choice:
Helping Others Make Important Decisions. A Step-by-Step Approach.
This workbook parallels and can be used as a companion to the workbook for individuals, What is Right for Me? It is geared to supporters who may want or need to help someone make an important or difficult decision.
Videos
- Decision Aid Video
This 5-minute dramatization illustrates use of a computer-based decision aid with peer support and how it can be incorporated into conversations with a doctor. Video shows a young woman discussing her concerns about medication with her psychiatrist. - Workbook Video
This 5-minute video is a dramatization illustrating how the two decision support workbooks can be used to help an individual to make a difficult decision. Video shows a young man making a decision about housing and discussing the decision with a peer support worker and his mother. - Shared Decision Making:
Your Right, Your Choice, Your Recovery
This short 10-minute video helps introduce shared decision making to people who use mental health services and explains why it is important to get involved in decisions about their treatment and recovery goals.
Video Guide
To order the video DVD, go to:
http://store.samhsa.gov/ - Shared Decision Making: An Emerging Best Practice in Mental Health Services
This 10-minute video invites mental health providers to learn more about shared decision making and learn how to integrate it into organizational policy and practice.
Video Guide
To order the video DVD, go to:
http://store.samhsa.gov/