Using WRAP & SDM
Supporting Choice
Helping Others Make Important Decisions
Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP)
People who use Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) make decisions about their lives, relationships, health care, and services on a regular basis. Some of these decisions are easy to make on your own, but others are more complicated or difficult. You can reduce your stress and make better choices if you use a step-by-step process to think through your situation and options.
There is a process called Shared Decision-Making (SDM) that is recommended by the Institute of Medicine as a way for people to partner with their physician or other healthcare provider in making important decisions about treatment and services. In this process, you and your provider share information and consider the options, but the final decisions about treatment, services, and supports are yours to make.
Shared Decision-Making in Mental Health Care
Practice, Research, and Future Directions
Shared Decision-Making in Mental Health Care
Practice, Research, and Future Directions
Shared decision making is an emerging best practice in health care and has been specifically recommended by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) (2005) Though formal shared decision making is new to the mental health field, it is entirely consistent with empowerment, self-determination, and recovery. The Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) supports the use of shared decision making as a routine part of mental health care
Shared Decision-Making in Mental Health Care Practice, Research, and Future Directions
This SAMHSA report gives an overview of shared decision-making (SDM), an intervention that enables people to actively manage their own health. It examines research on the effects of SDM in general and mental health care, and includes recommendations for advancing SDM in practice.
Using WRAP & SDM
What is Right for Me?
How to Make Important Decisions in Everyday Life
Using WRAP & SDM
Supporting Choice
Helping Others Make Important Decisions
Shared Decision Making (SDM) and Decision Support Tools can enhance Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP). Integrating WRAP with Shared Decision Making enhances the effectiveness of recovery planning. To integrate SDM into WRAP, it is essential to establish open communication, involve individuals in every step, and utilize decision support tools. These steps enhance collaboration and personalization in recovery.
Issues of Special Interest​
WRAP truly comes to life when you use it! When you create your own WRAP, you’ll discover that WRAP is designed as a tool to fit into your everyday life—not as a static plan that lives in a drawer somewhere. We invite you to put WRAP into action in whatever way feels right to you. These PowerPoint tools can help.