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