[NYAPRS Enews] New Center on Adherence and Self-Determination Launched

[Harvey Rosenthal]

NYAPRS Note: The following paragraph is an excerpt from the Mental
Health & Rehabilitation Newsletter February 2011 from the Center for
Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. 

 

 

Center on Adherence and Self-Determination

The Center on Adherence and Self-Determination is a new research
organization created to examine service engagement (treatment
"adherence", "compliance") using a self-determination framework. 

 

Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Center is
directed by Patrick Corrigan, PsyD of the Illinois Institute of
Technology's College of Psychology. 

 

Research is focused on promoting choice and full engagement in services
that help people with serious mental illnesses achieve their recovery
goals. 

 

The Center leads the field in the conceptualization, development, and
dissemination of innovative research methods, analytic approaches, and
interventions aimed at promoting self-determination and service
participation. For more information, please visit http://www.casd1.org/ 

 

The Center will also publish a series of Research and Practice Briefs
(R&PBs), the first of which can be found at
www.adherenceandselfdetermination.org/images/stories/casdrpb012011.pdf

 

Here's a quote from this piece:

 

"Let us be clear up front!  This notion of adherence has alarmed
consumers and most other stakeholders suggesting full benefit of
psychiatric services are not being availed.  Adherence, however, is a
value loaded idea suggesting service users are somehow not, for example,
taking 

their meds like they are supposed to.  We echo what many advocates say
in response.  Adherence is not the issue but self-determination.
Services

imply goals by which interventions are judged; their impact on specific
aspirations. These goals can only be determined by the person with
mental 

illness.  Hence, interventions only make sense when determined by the
person who might opt to partake in them."

 

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