Engaging, Assessing, Planning, Sustaining - Resources

Engaging

  Racism and Social Determinants of Psychosis

This resource provides an overview of the effects of structural racism on risk and determinants of psychosis through social determining factors such as racial descrimination, food insecurity, and police violence. It proposes recommendations for addressing structural racism, policy treatment, individual level interventions, and considerations for future research to improve outcomes.

Assessing

  Cultural Formulation Interview

This resource breaks down the 'core' section of the Cultural Formulation Interview, an assessment designed to help providers assess the cultural definition and perception of the crisis, causes, context, supports, and current and past help seeking.

Planning

  Collaborative Safety Plan

This resource offers an introduction to collaborative safety planning including individualizing plans, what to include in a safety plan, considerations for format and protocol of safety planning, and additional tools that dive deeper into implementation.

  Shared Decision-Making in Mental Healthcare

This resource provides an overview of the practice of Shared decision-making and its effects on general and mental healthcare. It highlights voices of experts and stakeholders, including expereiences of consumers, and concludes with recommendations for future directions of incorporating SDM in policy, practice, training, and research.

Sustaining

  Creating a Healthier Life: A step by step guide to wellness

This resource offers a step by step guide to developing a personalized wellness practice based on addressing the eight dimensions of wellness, which include occupational, social, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, environmental, and financial.