Respectful
Consistency and trust are essential qualities within the strengths-based relationship. Within the PRISMmodel, these relationship characteristics are developed from a foundation of respect: Respect for the individual as a human being; respect for the individual’s wishes, preferences, and desires; and respect for apprehensions, fears, and barriers. This foundation of respect is essential to assisting individuals to articulate, claim, and own their goals, to persevere when barriers emerge, and to continually strive to reach their full human potential.
Individualized
The PRISMmodel views individuality as the pinnacle of the treatment process. Approaches and interventions are customized and varied, depending on each client's strengths, challenges, and environmental situation. The approach is designed to meet the unique needs of each client through an engaged and persistent approach.
Strength-Based
The PRISMmodel emphasizes the full and continued assessment of a client's strengths, including character and personality attributes, intellectual and cognitive capacities, artistic talents, educational and vocational preferences and accomplishments, social and interpersonal abilities, cultural interests and spiritual beliefs, familial support, connectedness to friends and acquaintances, and practical skills. This approach effectively re-frames “failures” into learning experiences for clients who are being served.
Mission Driven
The fifth and final core element of the Fellowship’s PRISMmodel highlights the relationship between the organizational mission and actual service delivery.
The core constructs within the organization’s mission, specifically its emphasis on personal investment, perseverance, and hope, along with the five core elements of the PRISMmodel, are entrenched within the Model’s primary phases of treatment: Engagement, Assessment, and Treatment Planning.
Together, they guide service provision in a way that truly recognizes and respects the "client voice" within the recovery model.
Module I - Engagement
Module II - Assessment
Module III - Treatment Planning
These Modules articulate Fellowship Health Resources' clinical approach in an engaging and "reader friendly" manner. Throughout all three Modules, strengths-based and person-centered treatment philosophies of the PRISMmodel are defined, while remaining resolute in the ultimate effectiveness of clinical treatment that is mission-driven, respectful, and individualized.
The PRISMmodel for the Effective Treatment of Serious and Persistent Mental Illness defines Fellowship Health Resources, Inc. As such, the PRISMmodel will be the focus of an agency-wide training effort beginning in January 2010 through the Taton Learning Institute (TLI). It is our intent that all employees become proficient in the PRISMmodel to ensure that our organization's mission, vision, and guiding beliefs come to life each day within our clinical practice.