The Choice Project: Peer Workers Promoting Shared Decision Making at a Youth Mental Health Service.

Simmons, Magenta Bender; Batchelor, Samantha; Dimopoulos-Bick, Tara; Howe, Deb

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The Choice Project: Peer Workers Promoting Shared Decision Making at a Youth Mental Health Service.

Author(s): Magenta Bender Simmons ¹ , Samantha Batchelor ¹ , Tara Dimopoulos-Bick ¹ , Deb Howe ¹

Publication date (Electronic): May 01 2017

Journal: Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)

Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing

Keywords: Community mental health centers, Mental illness &amp, mental retardation, Community psychiatry, Adolescents/adolescence, Shared decision making, Early intervention, Peer work, Peer support, Youth Mental Health

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In youth mental health services, consumer participation is essential, but few implementation strategies exist to engage young consumers. This project evaluated an intervention implemented in an Australian youth mental health service that utilized peer workers to promote shared decision making via an online tool.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Psychiatr Serv

Title: Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)

Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing

ISSN (Electronic): 1557-9700

ISSN (Print): 1075-2730

Publication date (Electronic): May 01 2017

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[1 ] Dr. Simmons is with Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, and with the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia. Ms. Batchelor, Ms. Dimopoulos-Bick, and Ms. Howe are with Children and Young People's Mental Health and with headspace Gosford, Gosford, New South Wales, Australia.

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DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201600388

PubMed ID: 28457208

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Keywords: Community mental health centers, Mental illness &amp,mental retardation, Community psychiatry, Adolescents/adolescence, Shared decision making, Early intervention, Peer work, Peer support, Youth Mental Health

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