Bill Fulford (St Catherine's College, University of Oxford), "Linking Neuroscience with People: a Case Study in Values-based Practice and Person-centred Psychiatric Care"
Philosophy of Psychiatry Webinar | Winter 2023
"Linking Neuroscience with People: a Case Study in Values-based Practice and Person-centred Psychiatric Care"
Bill Fulford (St Catherine's College, University of Oxford)
Thursday, March 9, 2023
12:00-1:30 PM
Abstract:
This presentation highlights through brief interactive exercises and a case study the role of values-based practice as one of the practical cutting edges of philosophy and psychiatry. The presentation is in two parts. Part I introduces values and values-based practice and describes how they underpin contemporary models of person-centred care based on shared clinical decision-making between clinicians and patients. Part II explores through a case study (of delusion and spiritual experience) the special challenges presented by these models for psychiatry focussing on the roles of values and values-based practice. The growing range of resources (both clinical and philosophical) for tackling these challenges is described. The presentation concludes with a ‘mental health first’ bottom line, arguing that psychiatry, just in virtue of the special values challenges presented by it, has a potentially leading role to play in establishing this model of person-centred care across medicine as a whole. The ‘next generation’ of philosophers and psychiatrists is already delivering on the promise of the model for twenty-first century person-centred clinical care.
The webinar is free but registration is required: