The Behavioral Health Recovery Management Statement of Principles

As the years go on the importance of this document looms larger and larger to me. I urge everyone to read it. It’s only a couple of pages long.

We used these principles in a very focused way during the ten-year BHRM project. We would look at and study a program or service through the lens of these principles. Doing that would help us determine which principle seemed to be missing from that service, and then we would add whole new components to that program to cover that gap. Another common result was to see things were in place, but something simply needed to be adjusted. And we would make the needed adjustments.

Those innovations usually included getting customer input (current patients, former patients, etc.) on what to change and how. A few days ago I posted some related material focused on change management and navigating change projects. We used the methods in that document to help us guide organizational or program-level change.

I love almost everything about the BHRM Statement of Principles document. And its message looms large to me.

It can be read as a menu of opportunities. For example, do we need to build models of care that focus on long-term well-being, rather than the acute care model only?

Of this I am sure: if we keep doing the same things, we’ll keep getting the same results.