COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH COLLABORATIVE
INFORM INVOLVE INTERVENE IMPROVE
PATIENT CENTRICITY IS TOO OFTEN TREATED AS A STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE. IT IS, IN FACT, AN ACTION.
Quality, regulatory compliance, and safety have been hardwired into the fabric of healthcare delivery. So too have surveillance, prevention, and health promotion become synonymous with public health. Individual and Community involvement must be similarly operationalized to grow beyond satisfaction surveys and epidemiological reports towards vigilant feedback cycles to create, enhance, and evaluate healthcare activities.
WHY COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY?
Community Psychology as a discipline prescribes to tenets that, in mass, would benefit our health system.
Ecological Perspective – The principles of ecology demand that CP professionals understand current resources, responses to change, the domino effect of change, and how to grow from change. It allows for fluid and dynamic engagements.
Divergent Vs. Convergent – A dialectic exists in the CP field, which inevitably pulls a practitioner toward different and perhaps opposed poles of thought. Multiple solutions are needed to span the complexity and individuality of the health system.
Depowerment – CP approaches new problems by developing commitment, defers to the experience of the customer, and accepting the reality of the current state.
WHY A COLLABORATIVE?
The intricacy of the health system, healthcare organizations, and ecology of patients’ nested environments present a complexity not easily tackled by one mind or one set of hands.
The collaborative design of CPHC allows for a number of professionals to exist on the roster and for the right group of experts to serve each Client.
Clients benefit from the convenience of one contract and one point of contact, but the experience needed to approach a project from all sides with multifaceted perspectives.
