How best to engage patients in their psychiatric care
Optimal care is best achieved through a partnership between patient and provider
Bottom Line
Emerging care models demand that health care providers become teachers and motivators to help patients develop and implement patterns of health surveillance and intervention that will optimize their well-being and functionality. As active collaborators in their care, patients form a partnership with their care teams, allowing for regular, reciprocal exchange of information and shared decision-making. This shift to a partnership creates new, exciting roles and responsibilities for all parties.
Related Resources
- Improving Chronic Illness Care. www.improvingchroniccare.org.
- Chronic disease self-management program (Better Choices, Better Health workshop). Stanford School of Medicine. https://patienteducation.stanford.edu/programs/cdsmp.html.
Disclosure
The authors report no financial relationship with any company whose products are mentioned in this article or with manufacturers of competing products.
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Thomas E. Fluent, MD, talks about addressing patient resistance to a self-management model of care. Dr. Fluent is Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
