Being Trauma Informed and Recovery Oriented
Thoughts that may indicate that there is room for improvement: "If they wanted to get better then they should have just done what we told them to do." "Sometimes we just need to teach them a lesson," (with respect to using a restraint intervention). Making elaborate discharge plans with many appointments for people who have unstable housing and no social supports. Being directive rather than giving people a choice. Making treatment plan/care plan decisions without any participation with the patient/client/person being cared for and/or their family. The focus of collaborative care planning is about medications more times than not. The same plan of care is tried over and over again, with an expectation that when the patient/client/person being cared for is "ready" then the success will come. At a certain point we really have to ask ourselves: Is it the person that needs to change, or is it us? Are we more in