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Community Mental Health Journal
Published in: Community Mental Health Journal 6/2008

01-12-2008 | Original Paper

How Do Clients Obtain Mental Health Information? Commentary on “Consumer Perspectives on Information and Other Inputs to Decision-Making: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice”

Authors: Rob Whitley, Robert E. Drake

Published in: Community Mental Health Journal | Issue 6/2008

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Tannebaum’s paper (2008) reports a small-scale study of health information-seeking among clients of community mental health services. In the tradition of well-conducted qualitative research, this paper is descriptive in orientation and modest in scope. Data are collected from only two locations, which certainly restricts external validity. The study raises as many questions as it answers. That said, it offers some fresh new perspectives for thinking about the domains of client information-seeking and subsequent decision-making. This is an area of increasing interest given wider shifts in medicine away from paternalism towards innovative models of shared decision-making (Adams and Drake 2006). …
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Bateson, G. (2000). Steps to an ecology of mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Haynes, R. B., Devereaux, P. J., & Guyatt, G. H. (2002). Clinical experience in the era of evidence-based medicine and patient choice. American College of Physicians Journal Club, 136, A11.
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Tannebaum, S. (2008). Consumer perspectives on information and other inputs to decision-making: Implications for evidence based practice. Community Mental Health Journal. (this issue).
Metadata
Title
How Do Clients Obtain Mental Health Information? Commentary on “Consumer Perspectives on Information and Other Inputs to Decision-Making: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice”
Authors
Rob Whitley
Robert E. Drake
Publication date
01-12-2008
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Community Mental Health Journal / Issue 6/2008
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-008-9148-5

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