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From Compliance
to Alliance:
The CommonGround
Approach To Supporting Clients' Use of Psychiatric Medications As Part
of the Recovery Process
In this training participants
will have the opportunity to learn about a recovery-oriented approach
to supporting clients' use of psychiatric medications. Based
on the research of Dr. Deegan, participants will learn:
- The importance of personal medicine in the recovery process
- Medication traps and how to help clients avoid them
- The ethical, clinical and evidence-based rationale for shared decision-making
vs. compliance
- Assessing clients' decisional conflict regarding use of medications
in the recovery process
- Practical skills for supporting clients' journey through decisional
conflict
- The role of the worker in helping clients prepare for meetings with
psychiatrists
The training will include lecture,
PowerPoint slides, audio-taped excerpts from interviews with service
users, role-plays and small group work. There will be ample time
for discussion and questions.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will learn the importance of personal medicine in the
recovery process, how to support clients in identifying personal medicine
and how to teach clients to effectively communicate it to psychiatrists.
- Participants will learn how to assess decisional conflict that clients
may be experiencing with regard to use of medications in the recovery
process.
- Participants will learn practical, person-centered strategies for
supporting clients through decisional conflict with regards to using
medications in recovery.
- Participants will learn common medication “traps” and how to avoid
them
- Participants will learn to help clients set goals and prepare for
medication appointments with medical staff
- Participants will learn how to support clients in the shared decision-making
process
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