The Art of Co-ordinating Care offers a fresh approach to service delivery and co-ordinating care. The handbook encourages workers to think creatively and to apply this in their work with service users, particularly in delivering the Care Programme Approach (CPA). It is both a reference and resource, with practical tips and exercises for personal and team-working development. This is fundamentally a practical workbook, which has discussions about how to go about engagement, assessment and care or support planning and review, within a context of value-based and person-centred care and support. This handbook will support everyone who is involved in the fundamental role of co-ordinating care - anyone who observes and assesses a person's needs and wishes, and then offers that person directions or suggestions, or communicates this information to a third party.

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Steve Morgan worked as an occupational therapist on an acute inpatient unit in the mid-1980s before taking up rolesin community mental health and assertive outreach in inner-city London services from 1987 to 1997. He spent sevenyears working in the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health training section before leaving in October 2001 to establish hisown practice development consultancy: Practice Based Evidence. He gained an MA in Practice Development in MentalHealth in 1998, with the National Centre for Work Based Learning at Middlesex University.Steve has published a number of textbooks, training manuals and articles from 1993 onwards. He authored theSainsbury Centre risk publications in 1998 and 2000, and incorporated more recent revisions and developments ofthat work into the Working with Risk trainers' and practitioners' manuals, published by Pavilion in 2007. In 2009 hepublished The Art of Co-ordinating Care with Pavilion Publishing, before extensively revising and updating the Workingwith Risk manuals into this current publication.Steve Morgan worked as an occupational therapist on an acute inpatient unit in the mid-1980s before taking up rolesin community mental health and assertive outreach in inner-city London services from 1987 to 1997. He spent sevenyears working in the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health training section before leaving in October 2001 to establish hisown practice development consultancy: Practice Based Evidence. He gained an MA in Practice Development in MentalHealth in 1998, with the National Centre for Work Based Learning at Middlesex University.Steve has published a number of textbooks, training manuals and articles from 1993 onwards. He authored theSainsbury Centre risk publications in 1998 and 2000, and incorporated more recent revisions and developments ofthat work into the Working with Risk trainers' and practitioners' manuals, published by Pavilion in 2007. In 2009 hepublished The Art of Co-ordinating Care with Pavilion Publishing, before extensively revising and updating the Workingwith Risk manuals into this current publication.Andrew and Roberta Wetherell run ARW Mental Health Training &Consultancy, working from service user, self-help and advocacy perspectives,with a website at www.arwtraining.com