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Shared Decision Making for Whole Health

Maryland works closely with national experts and bases its PCCP training on the empirically supported practices. The PCCP model is outlined by the authors in the book Treatment Planning for Person-Centered Care: Shared Decision Making for Whole Health, Second Edition by Neal Adams, and Diane M. Grieder (2013). Find it at Amazon or ScienceDirect.

'Being Person-Centered' Webinar

Diane Grieder, co-author of the model, filmed a module on “Being Person Centered” which provides an overview of Person-Centered practices and principles. This module is available for free at mdbehavioralhealth.com – set up a free account and look for Module 18 in the Youth Co-Occurring Disorders Training for Behavioral Health Providers series.

The Power of Language in Strengths-Based Approaches: The Glass Half Empty, The Glass Half Full

An exercise useful in exploring provider’s and programs’ use of language and how language we use in everyday practice supports or hinders our efforts to provide person centered care. Find this resource here.

Scholarly Articles

Making Recovery Real: The Critical Role of Treatment Planning
This article focuses on the role of treatment planning to ensure recovery-oriented services in facilities for mental health and substance abuse in the U.S. It reviews barriers to good planning, the importance of establishing a relationship with the patient and family and interventions that promote growth and self-reliance. (Grieder & Adams, 2004)

Motivational Interviewing and Assertive Community Treatment: A Case for Training ACT Teams
For Assertive Community Treatment teams: this article examines areas of treatment including assertive engagement, Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment, Person-Centered Planning which both utilize Motivational Interviewing techniques and are considered an integral part of ACT services (Manthey, Blajeski, & Monroe-DeVita, 2011).

Life is Not an “Outcome”: Reflections on Recovery as an Outcome and as a Process.
Person-Centered Care is recovery-oriented; however, “recovery” is a term that is broadly applied. This article explores the nature of the relationship between recovery as a process and recovery as an outcome (Davidson, Tondora, & Ridgway, 2010). 

Creating a recovery-oriented system of behavioral health care: moving from concept to reality. 
For programs implementing Person-Centered Care, this article describes challenges and successes seen in the first four years of efforts the state of Connecticut made to reorient its behavioral health system to promoting recovery. It reviews a multi-year, systemic process that involved the following interrelated steps: a) developing core values and principles based on the input of people in recovery; b) establishing a conceptual and policy framework based on this vision; c) building workforce competencies and skills; d) changing programs and service structures; e) aligning fiscal and administrative policies; and, finally, f) monitoring, evaluating, and adjusting these efforts (Davidson et al., 2007).

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Need Technical Assistance?

The EBPC regularly schedules technical assistance sessions for Maryland providers seeking help with putting Person-Centered Care into practice. To find out about upcoming sessions, click the button below.

Technical Assistance Sessions