PCIC hosted this two-day workshop focused on “Values-Based Care Planning”. Participants were provided with methods and strategies for using cognitive-behavioral and complex trauma frameworks to gain a greater understanding of why complex patients behave in ways that seem self-destructive.
Recent studies of interventions, with similar components to PCIC’s, have further shown that the development of “authentic healing relationships” between the care team and patient are essential to the success of such an intervention. Using values-based therapy models, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, along with information gathered from the field while conducting our current intervention, we have collaborated with Drs. Nick Maguire and Stephanie Barker from the University of Southhampton, United Kingdom, with the intention of enhancing our care planning framework.
With our expert colleagues, including Drs. Maguire and Barker, PCIC clinician-researchers, a local therapist who works with complex patient populations, and our own care management intervention team, we have worked to develop the prototype of a Values-Based Care Planning Tool (VBCPT) that will elicit patient goals in terms of overall health, as well as the many barriers that stand in the way of patients achieving their goals. This tool is particularly useful with complex, HNHC patients, as identifying systemic and personal barriers to goal achievement is essential to effectively coordinating their care, and the focus on values allows our care managers to build a more genuine relationship with patients.
We believe this tool is essential to inform the development of a HNHC patient-centered care plan, which will more easily follow once the care manager and patient are aware of patient goals and specific barriers because they have completed the Values-Based exercise. This tool is one smaller component of a larger plan to intervene and improve the care coordination process for HNHC patients. The result will be a community and end-user accepted tool for improving the care planning process, and thus, starting to improve pathways of care delivery (i.e., reducing systems barriers) for complex, HNHC patients.
Thanks to all the participants who were able to join us! Special thanks to the amazing team and our partners from the University of Southampton - Nick Maguire and Stephanie Barker, as well as Mark Sperber who helped put this together.
Workshop Faculty:
- Nick Maguire Ph.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Director of Programs, University of Southampton, England
- Stephanie L. Barker, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southampton, England
- Mark Sperber, MA LPC-S. LMFT, LCDC
- David Buck, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
