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MENTAL HEALTH: PERSON-CENTERED CARE & COLLABORATION
Person-centered Care Planning Action Checklist
People respond best when they’re involved in making decisions about their lives. Person-centered care puts the person at the center and understands every person is unique. Person-centered care always involves the person and views the person as an equal. Person-centered care focuses on a person’s strengths, not their weaknesses. A person-centered care plan may include unique approaches to mealtimes, living environments and level of risk.
A person-centered care plan gets input from the whole
care team.
Mental health experts are important partners in helping you develop person-centered care plans. Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Mental Health Social Workers have special training to help you identify behavior triggers and strategies to reduce unhealthy actions.
Person-centered care is a way of thinking and caring that sees the person as an equal partner in planning, delivering and monitoring their care.
Psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health social workers
Use the whole-person approach to develop your person-centered plan
Helps identify:
Coping skills Social connections Physical needs Intellectual functioning Spiritual connection Occupation satisfaction and interest Financial status
Ask mental health experts for help when:
When a person fails to respond to your initial care plan When a person has complex mental illness symptoms When you’re new to caring for someone living with a mental illness
have special training to help you identify triggers and strategies to reduce unhealthy responses and actions.
Sample Person-centered Care Plans
Sample #1
Sample #2
