Resources
SAPT Resources
This section of the SAPT web site provides references to key resources, such as articles, manuals, and web sites that can assist agencies with program planning and service implementation. The resources are organized by the 3 domains and 14 sub-categories that frame the SAPT.
Administration
- Philosophy
- Continuous Quality Improvement
- Outcome Assessment
- Staff Support
- Consumer and Family Support
Treatment
- Validation of the Person
- Person-Centered Decision Making
- Self Care – Wellness
- Advance Directives
- Alternatives to Coercive Treatment
Community Integration
- Access
- Basic Life Resources
- Meaningful Activities and Roles
- Peer Leadership
Administration
1. Philosophy
Review of Recovery Literature
Ruth Ralph, a consumer researcher, prepared a review of recovery literature for the National Association for State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) that provides agencies a valuable orientation to the principles and practices of recovery (Ralph, 2000).
http://www.nasmhpd.org/sites/default/files/ralphrecovweb.pdf
Sample Mission Statements
The following samples provide examples of integrating recovery into mission statements:
The Main Place, Inc., “Your Recovery Center,” is a consumer-operated mental health recovery center that promotes recovery through peer support, socialization, education, and training. By working together, consumers build better lives for themselves, gain employment, maintain independence and earn acceptance within their communities.
The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Lucas County exists to enhance the well being of our residents by promoting mental health, preventing substance abuse and facilitating a process of recovery for persons experiencing mental illness and/or alcohol and other drug disorders.
2. Continuous Quality Improvement
Quality Improvement for Mental Health published by the World Health Organization (2003).
Consumer‐Led Evaluation Teams: A Peer‐Led Approach to Assessing Consumer Experiences with Mental Health Services. Prepared for the National Empowerment Center, 2009: http://www.power2u.org/downloads/CET-ReportByCQI.pdf
3. Outcome Assessment
Mental Health Recovery: What Helps and What Hinders? A National Research Project for the Development of Recovery Facilitating System Performance Indicators is available for download on NASMHPD web site:
Personal Outcome Measures in Consumer-Directed Behavioral Health, The Council on Quality and Leadership, www.thecouncil.org
Principles for Assessment of Patient Outcomes in Mental Health Care: This article in Psychiatric Services provides a solid foundation for developing and implementing outcome measures (Smith, Manderscheid, Flynn & Steinwachs, 1997).
A Compendium of Recovery Measures Volume II (click on title) is available from the Evaluation Center at HSRI (Campbell-Orde, Chamerlain, Carpenter, & Leff, 2005)
Consumer‐Led Evaluation Teams: A Peer‐Led Approach to Assessing Consumer Experiences with Mental Health Services Prepared for the National Empowerment Center, June 2009.
http://www.power2u.org/downloads/CET-ReportByCQI.pdf
4. Staff Support
Recovery Competencies for New Zealand Mental Health Workers is available for download at the following web site:
http://www.maryohagan.com/resources/Text_Files/Recovery%20Cometencies%20O’Hagan.pdf
Evaluating CSOP’s: Learning to Use FACIT – A Training Manual for Peer Evaluation Teams prepared by Jean Campbell, Ph.D. of the Program in Consumer Studies and Training at the Missouri Mental Health Institute on August 2013.
https://vocalvirginia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FACIT-Training-Manual_2013.pdf
Training and Education Needs of Consumers, Families, and Front-Line Staff in Behavioral Health Practice by John A. Morris and Gail W. Stuart. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, vol. 29, Nos 4/5, May 2002.
Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature: The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) prepared a synthesis of the literature on implementing effective programs.
http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu/sites/nirn.fpg.unc.edu/files/resources/NIRN-MonographFull-01-2005.pdf
5. Consumer and Family Support
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), Mary Ellen Copeland, www.copelandcenter.com
Freedom Self-Advocacy Curriculum, available through the National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse web site: http://www.mhselfhelp.org/
Personal Outcome Measures in Consumer-Directed Behavioral Health, available from the Council on Quality and Leadership, www.thecouncil.org
In Our Own Voice, NAMI National: http://nami.org/
Return to Community: Building Support Systems for People with Psychiatric Disabilities. Carling, P. J. (1995). New York: The Guilford Press.
Recovery: The lived experience of recovery. Deegan, P. (1988) Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 11.
On Our Own, Together: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness. Clay, S., Schell, B., Corrigan, P. & Ralph, R. (Eds). (2005). Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
Common Threads: Stories of Survival & Recovery from Mental Illness. Hendry, P. (Ed). (2007). The Florida Peer Network, Inc. & The University of South Florida, Tampa.
http://www.floridatac.com/files/document/Common%20Threads%2012.18.07%20Final.pdf
Peer Support Coalition of Florida: http://www.peersupportfl.org/
Treatment
1. Validation of the Person
The following interpersonal skills programs can assist agencies with validating consumers and facilitating a process of recovery:
Rehabilitation Readiness: This program teaches practitioners how to help people to actively assess and develop their own readiness to engage in rehabilitation and includes a section on connecting that focuses on establishing positive helping relationships with consumers. Available from the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University: https://cpr.bu.edu/resources/newsletter/assessing-developing-readiness-rehabilitation
Motivational Interviewing: Motivational interviewing is a client-centered, directive method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. The following materials are available free of charge.
WWW.MotivationalInterviewing.org includes general information about the approach, as well as links, training resources, and information on reprints and recent research.
TIP 35: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Abuse Treatment:
Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change is the seminal text on the subject, available through Guilford Press, now in its third edition (Miller & Rollnick, 2013).
2. Person Centered Decision Making
Treatment Planning for Person-Centered Care: the Road to Mental Health and Addiction is the seminal textbook in the field (Adams & Grieder, 2005).
The Role of Person-Centered Service/Care Planning in Mental Health Recovery is a white paper and literature review prepared for the Center for Mental Health Services and is available for download at the following link (Adams & Grieder, 2005):
delawareebse.pbworks.com/f/pcprecovery.adams-grieder.doc
3. Self Care – Wellness
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), Mary Ellen Copeland, www.copelandcenter.com and www.mentalhealthrecovery.com
Hearts and Minds, NAMI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVhP8SwmNds
Whole Health Action Management (WHAM) is a training program and peer support group model developed by SAMHSA’s Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) to encourage increased resiliency, wellness, and self-management of health and behavioral health among people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders.
http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/health-wellness/wham
Wellness for Life: is a multidisciplinary intervention designed to increase health-promoting behaviors and reduce the negative effects of metabolic syndrome disorders among persons with serious mental illnesses. Exercise, nutritional counseling, health literacy education, and peer wellness coaching are provided by allied health professionals and students. Gill, Kenneth J.; Zechner, Michelle; Zambo Anderson, Ellen; Swarbrick, Margaret; Murphy, Ann (2016). Wellness for life: A pilot of an interprofessional intervention to address metabolic syndrome in adults with serious mental illnesses. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol 39(2), Jun 2016, 147-153.
Primary Care Provider’s Role in Mental Health. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: A Healthcare Reform Issue Brief:
http://naapimha.org/wordpress/media/Primary-Care-Providers%E2%80%99-Role-in-Mental-Health.pdf
SAMHSA Self Help Booklet Series,
Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery
http://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/SMA-3720/SMA-3720.pdf
SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions: http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services- Healthfinder.gov: https://healthfinder.gov/
4. Advance Directives
Psychiatric Advance Directives: Pros, Cons, and Next Steps: The purpose of this Community Integration Tool is to offer some of the major pros and cons associated with psychiatric advance directives. It also offers tips, next steps and a list of tools, resources, and references to guide discussion around optimal implementation. Available for download from the UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration at the following link: http://tucollaborative.org/pdfs/Toolkits_Monographs_Guidebooks/self_determination_psychiatric_advanced_directives_self_directed_care/Psychiatric_Advance_Directives.pdf
The National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives: The Center’s web site provides a central resource of information on psychiatric advance directives: http://www.nrc-pad.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
Forms to Prepare an Advance Directive for Mental Health Decision Making were prepared by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and are available for download at:http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/consumer_affairs/resources/docs/advance_directive.pdf
5. Alternatives to Coercive Treatment
Managing Conflict Cooperatively: Making a Commitment to Nonviolence and recovery in Mental Health Settings (Blanch & Prescott, 2002) describes principles of conflict management and dispute resolution, describes the application of these principles in the mental health field, describes how conflict management can provide tools for changing institutional culture, and provides recommendations for system improvement. It is available for download from the NASMHPD web site:
https://www.nasmhpd.org/sites/default/files/ManagingConflictCooperativelyADR(1).pdf
Transforming Florida’s Mental Health System – Constructing a Comprehensive and Competent Criminal Justice/Mental Health/Substance Abuse Treatment System: Strategies for Planning, Leadership, Financing, and Service Development provides an analysis of Florida’s mental health system and describes strategies for developing and implementing services that provide alternatives to coercive forms of treatment (Supreme Court of the State of Florida, 2007):
http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/pub_info/documents/11-14-2007_Mental_Health_Report.pdf
The Gains Center provides state-of-the-art information and technical assistance to support services for persons with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders in the justice system. http://gainscenter.samhsa.gov/html/
Community Integration
1. Access to Services
A Cultural Competency Toolkit: Ten Grant Sites Share Lesson’s Learned. National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center, Mental Health America: http://ncstac.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=59
Cultural Competence in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. A Conceptual Model. This article in the Nursing Clinics of North America presents a conceptual model for enhancing cultural competence in psychiatric nursing. The model, The Culturally Competent Model of Care, views cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skill, and cultural encounter as critical components of cultural competence. The Culturally Competent Model of Care encourages psychiatric nurses to see themselves as always in the process of becoming culturally competent, rather than being culturally competent (Campinha-Bacote, 1994)
Cultural Competency: A Practical Guide for Mental Health Service Providers was published through the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at University of Texas at Austin (Saldana, 2001).
2. Basic Life Resources
Morbidity and Mortality in People with serious Mental Illness was prepared by the Medical Directors Council of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) (2006) and presents a roadmap for strategic approaches to reduce excess illness and premature death among persons with mental illnesses (NASMHPD). The document is available for download at the NASMHPD web site: http://www.nasmhpd.org/general_files/publications/med_directors_pubs/Technical%20Report%20on%20Morbidity%20and%20Mortaility%20-%20Final%2011-06.pdf
Transforming Florida’s Mental Health System – Constructing a Comprehensive and Competent Criminal Justice/Mental Health/Substance Abuse Treatment System: Strategies for Planning, Leadership, Financing, and Service Development provides an analysis of Florida’s mental health system and describes strategies for developing and implementing comprehensive and coordinated service systems (Supreme Court of the State of Florida, 2007):
http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/pub_info/documents/11-14-2007_Mental_Health_Report.pdf
SAMHSA’s Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity and Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health (ADS Center) provides resources to assist agencies with developing stigma reduction activities: http://www.stopstigma.samhsa.gov/
3. Meaningful Activities and Roles
Return to Community: Building Support Systems for People with Psychiatric Disabilities by Carling, Paul J. is available through Guilford Press, 1995. It provides workable solutions to overcoming many of the barriers to successful community integration (Carling, 1995).
Compeer Inc, www.compeer.org is an international non-profit organization that helps adults and children overcome the devastating effects of mental illness, such as loneliness, isolation and low self-esteem – through the power of friendship.
Simply To Be Let In: Inclusion as a Basis for Recovery describes a program to promote friendships among persons with serious mental illnesses, published in the Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation (Davidson et al., 2001).
4. Peer Leadership
NAMI Provider Education Training: www.nami.org
Steps to Recovery Training is available through the Florida Peer Network http://www.floridapeernetwork.org/
Freedom Self-Help Advocacy Curriculum is available at the National Mental Health Self-Help Clearinghouse: http://www.mhselfhelp.org/
Leadership & Beyond Training is available through the Florida Peer Network http://www.floridapeernetwork.org/
On Our Own, Together: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness. Clay, S., Schell, B., Corrigan, P., & Ralph, R. (Eds). (2005). Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.