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Treatment Planning for Person-Centered Care: The Road to Mental Health and Addiction Recovery, by Neal Adams, MD, MPH and Diane Grieder, M.Ed. is available for direct purchase online at:




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Person-Centered Planning

Online Workbook

This workbook was developed by the Western New York Care Coordination Program in collaboration with Neal Adams, MD MPH and Diane Grieder, M.Ed., authors of Treatment Planning for Person Centered Care: The Road to Mental Health and Addiction Recovery. This online workbook is designed to provide an opportunity for behavioral health providers to practice developing and documenting person centered assessments, recovery plans and progress notes -- focused on supporting individuals in their recovery, while meeting the requirements for documenting medical necessity.

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Clinically Informed Consensus Guidelines for Improved Integration of Primary Care & Mental Health Services in California

Prepared by Neal Adams, MD, MPH


Supported by a grant from the California HealthCare Foundation, the California Institute for Mental Health, and the generous in-kind contributions of providers and service delivery organizations from around California, these clinical guidelines were developed to address a common and growing problem in contemporary health care practice: how can people’s coexisting general health and mental health care needs be best addressed with optimal efficiency and effectiveness?

Click here to view/download the final report (PDF)

Click here to view/download a presentation of the guidelines given at the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association Conference in San Diego, CA (PDF)

Neal Adams, MD, MPH
408.591.2110

Diane M. Grieder, M.Ed
757.539.6540





Treatment Planning for Person-Centered Care:
The Road to Mental Health and Addiction Recovery

By Neal Adams, MD, MPH and Diane Grieder, M.Ed




Treatment Planning for Person-Centered Care: The Road to Mental Health and Addiction Recovery, by Neal Adams, MD, MPH, and Diane Grieder, M.Ed., is a process-oriented book, guiding therapists in how to engage clients in building collaborative treatment plans that result in better outcomes. Suitable as a reference tool, a training guide for existing staff and as a text for pre-degree training programs, the book addresses the entire process of treatment, from assessment through outcome evaluation. The book is relevant to providers in all settings, with a practical approach and case examples throughout.

  • Enhance the reader’s understanding of the value and role of treatment planning in responding to the needs of adults, children and families with mental health and substance abuse treatment needs; 
  • Build the skills necessary to provide quality, person-centered, culturally competent and recovery / resiliency-oriented care in a changing service delivery system; 
  • Provide readers with sample documents, examples of how to write a plan, etc.; 
  • Provide a text and educational tool for course work and training as well as a reference for established practitioners; 
  • Assist mental health and addictive disorders providers / programs in meeting external requirements, improve the quality of services and outcomes, and maintain optimum reimbursement.

"Treatment Planning for Person-Centered Care puts the entire concept of individualized service planning into understandable language for all readers. The authors have captured the essence of active involvement of the persons served in the identification of needs (as well as strengths) and the development of a plan that will address those needs. This book is definitely in concert with and supports the CARF Behavioral Health standards, and would be an excellent resource to better understand how to move towards a person-centered assessment and planning process."
- Nikki Migas, M.P.A., Managing Director, Behavioral Health Customer Service Unit,
CARF, the Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission


"This book encourages the field to turn a very important corner. It clarifies the goals and the processes that Mental Health and Alcohol/Drug systems presently need to focus on: joining with clients to help them enter/re-enter their communities and successfully exit the treatment systems. This book will help practitioners develop the necessary conceptual overview as well as individual components of service plans that will significantly enhance our clients’ chances for real world success."
- Ed Diksa, California Institute for Mental Health


"The authors take what for many clinicians is an irritating paperwork requirement - treatment planning that is a diversion from their "real" work of therapy - and turn it into a valuable tool. By placing the person, the client, at the center of planning, Adams and Grieder take the reader step by step through a transforming process. They lead us to re-think whose goals we are trying to achieve in treatment. This book could precipitate many fruitful seminar discussions during clinical training."
- Eric Goplerud, Ph.D., George Washington University Medical Center