Using Open Dialogue Approach To Mental Illness

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I was inspired through the introduction of the open dialogues approach in the lecture, a new ways of thinking about mental illness and the treatment. Psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses; para-professionals; clients; even their family and the public, mostly focused on the controlling of symptoms, as well as removing the symptoms as possible; I thought attention could be more directed to generating dialogues from clients and their family members, attended to what they are saying rather than planning interventions solely aimed at motivating change in the clients or their families.
The Open Dialogue approach was first developed in the 1980s by Jaakko Seikkula, Birgitta Alakare, Markku Sutela and their multidisciplinary team at Keropudas hospital

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