The promise of shared decision making in mental health.

Shared decision making is a verb. It connotes a process, supported by specific information technologies, that reengineers how practitioners and people with diagnoses work together (Montori, Gafni, & Charles, 2006). Undoubtedly, the foundational values and principles of shared decision making are familiar to the readers of this journal. Person-centered care, respect for individual autonomy, choice and collaboration are well known and widely embraced in behavioral health and psychiatric rehabilitation (Anthony, 1979; Cohen, Farkas, Cohen, & Unger, 1991; USPRA, 2009). Shared decision making advances these principles through the use of specific information technologies such as decision aids and electronic decision support programs (O’Connor et al., 2009). When carefully designed and strategically inserted into the everyday workflow, these technologies hold the promise of helping busy practitioners put person-centered and recovery-based values into practice. In this paper we discuss the promise of shared decision making for advancing our field.

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