Values Based Practice
What are Values and Values-based practice?
Everyone has them. Most organisations claim to have them. What are they? The aim of values-based practice is to support effective health care decision making. As a set of practical tools, VBP gives us the skills to respond in a positive and problem-solving way to the increasingly complex values that are involved in every aspect of modern health care. VBP is in this respect similar to evidence-based practice. Both aim to support health care decision making.
Evidence-based practice relies on objective evidence derived from research. With evidence, objectivity (freedom from bias) is important. VBP, by contrast, relies on subjectivity. It seeks to get as close as possible to the values, the points of view and perspectives of those directly concerned in a given direction.
Resources
Values Based Practice and the new Mental Health Act - powerpoint presentation
Guiding Principles - powerpoint presentation
Finding a Shared Vision of How People's Mental Health Problems Should be Understood - powerpoint presentation
Whose Values - workbook
NIMHE Values Framework
Notes & Annotated Reading Guide
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