The PODcast: What is "Peer Supported Open Dialogue"?

Описание: “Open Dialogue” - Western Lapland’s response to its community’s mental health crises - has inspired projects around the world that seek to emulate its elements and principles, in the hope of replicating its success. However, outside of the community and culture that have co-evolved with Open Dialogue over its decades of development, these philosophies and practices have met challenges. One of the largest and, arguably, most successful efforts to address these challenges - Peer-supported Open Dialogue (POD) - has resulted in the largest research study yet of Open Dialogue-inspired services. The ODDESSI trial is studying the adoption of Peer-supported Open Dialogue within several of the U.K.’s National Health Service trusts.

POD adds elements to Open Dialogue that can help to strengthen aspects that are challenged outside of OD’s origin - a strong sense of community, along with a level of mindful awareness that may be naturally present among people who spent decades developing Open Dialogue together. The “peer” part of Peer-supported Open Dialogue includes essential voices in the system’s dialogue - relational, familial, community and societal perspectives that in a medically-focused system of care fall to the margins. The PODcast will explore how POD seeks to bring Open Dialogue principles and practice to an intrigued but skeptical - and increasingly desperate - world. In our first episode we will meet with some of POD’s originators - psychiatrist Russell Razzaque of NELFT, family therapist Val Jackson, and professor Mark Hopfenbeck to learn about POD’s origins, development, and future. In future episodes we will meet with teams that are bringing POD to NHS trusts, as well as others who are actively engaged in bringing Open Dialogue to the world.