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Consultation on guidance on 'Finding a shared vision of how people's mental health problems should be understood'

The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) has developed draft guidance for consultation on ‘Finding a shared vision of how people’s mental health problems should be understood’.  The guidance is aimed at everyone concerned with the development and delivery of services including people that use services and their carers.

The guidance aims to:

• identify a shared vision of how people’s mental health problems should be understood that is recognised equally by different provider groups and by service users and their carers
• raise awareness of the wide variety of different approaches to assessing mental health problems and wellbeing and
• build mutual understanding of these different approaches as resources for drawing together, through a shared process between service users, carers and service providers, ways of understanding a mental health problem that reflect the particular and often very different strengths and needs of individual service users.

The consultation is taking place between 28 November 2007 and 5 March 2008.  We are seeking people’s views on the draft guidance in particular in relation to specific questions as well as general comments. The information which we receive back will be considered, to revise the draft and publish a final version, currently planned for May 2008.

• Download consultation document (PDF, 490K)
• Download consultation questions proforma (DOC, 42K)