Text Size
   

2: Supporting Self-management

David Featherston

PDFPrintE-mail

Learning objectives

To improve understanding of self-management support

To understand that the process of recovery is a personal journey

To recognise the significance of self-management support in a chronic care model

To identify the skills required to offer optimal self-management support

To have knowledge of behaviour change models and understand their significance to self-management support

To have awareness that actions can be perceived differently

To have access to self-management support resources

Topic areas

2.1: Self-management in the Lives of Patients

2.2: The Process of Recovery

2.3: The Chronic Care Model

2.4: Skills for Self-management Support

2.5: Skills for Self-management Support – Behaviour Change

2.6: Perceptions

2.7: Resources on Self-management Support

2.8: Review of Module 2

 

True or false?

To begin, try the pre-module test. This test will be repeated at the end of the module.

1. Developing relationships with others is an important element of self-management.
2. The patient defines the meaning of the term ‘recovery’ for themselves.
3. Recovery is not possible while patients are still experiencing significant symptoms of mental illness.
4. The psychiatrist has no role to play in a patient’s recovery process.
5. It is recommended that nineteen core skills are required for self-management support. Proficiency in only a few of the core skills will still provide optimal support.
6. Behaviour change skills are peripheral skills for a psychiatrist.
7. Research evidence gives strength to motivational interviewing as a process to support behaviour change.
8. There can be considerable discrepancies between the quality and content of care that the health professional perceives they are providing and the experience of the patient and carer.
9. Self-management is facilitated by patients and carers having access to summaries of evidence, to allow informed discussion regarding management options.
10. Embedding self-management principles into practice never requires changes in the way delivery of care is structured.

Project support

ImageProject support

This RANZCP Chronic Condition Self-management project is supported by funding from the Australian Better Health Initiative: A joint Australian, State and Territory government initiative.

RANZCP

ImageAbout RANZCP

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) is the principal organisation representing the medical specialty of psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand.

The College is responsible for training, examining and awarding the Fellowship of the College qualification to medical practitioners.