Mental Health and Personalisation : Themes and Issues in Recovery-Based Mental Health Care and Support

This approach has also been supported by wider government agendas, with a new mental health policy New Horizons published in 2009, which stated personalisation was fundamental to recovery, and personalised approaches are also being introduced across health and social care as the preferred method of public sector support. Mental health services and support have been an integrated health and social care approach for some time, which means that different approaches and professional perspectives need to be co-ordinated and combined. Work undertaken in the early 2000s attempted to establish a common set of competencies which all workers involved in delivering mental health support would need to develop and demonstrate. The 10 Essential Shared Capabilities was published in 2004 as the framework for all, and this workbook draws on these capabilities to demonstrate and explore how the personalisation agenda can be delivered in an integrated mental health setting. ## Section 5: Promoting recovery Working in partnership to provide care and treatment that enables service users and carers to tackle mental health problems with hope and optimism and to work towards a valued lifestyle within and beyond the limits of any mental health problem. ## Competence 3: Understand their role and that of others within a multidisciplinary setting. Competence 4: Be able to engage service users in a collaborative assessment process. Competence 5: Acknowledge the part that families and carers play in the service user's support network and be able to engage them as partners in care. Personalisation in mental health services is a subject that encompasses many areas and meanings, from social inclusion principles through to a simple direct payment, and as such this handbook aims ot assist service users, carers and professionals to work through the themes and issues as related to recovery based mental health care and support.