Mental Health, Psychiatry, Specialty Boutique, Pathologies 

Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health: A Practical Guide to Person-Centered Planning by Janis Tondora, Rebecca Miller, Mike Slade, and Larry Davidson offers a set of steps to implement Person-Centered Care Planning (PCCP), an approach to mental illness treatment based in the philosophy of the recovery movement. Unlike traditional mental health care, which focuses mainly on managing symptoms, recovery-based PCCP attempts to help patients live lives of meaning and purpose without being defined by their mental illnesses. Under PCCP, health care providers assist patients with living the lives they want to live; patients collaborate with their providers on individualized treatment goals and support plans, and the importance of patients’ personal relationships is emphasized as well. With an emphasis on practical application, this book provides concrete instructions to implement PCCP, including how to draft a support plan, strength-based assessments, and documentation.