Stepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums

Stepped Care 2.0: A Paradigm Shift in Mental Health,  by Dr Peter Cornish, made a compelling argument for why the existing  mental health care system has consistently struggled to meet the needs  of clients from all walks of life, and laid out key principles and  guidelines for how the system could be changed. But what challenges are  involved in putting these ideas into practice? Stepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums features essays, interviews, and arguments from a wide range of contributors who have tried to do just that. 

The Power of Conundrums dives deep into the practical application of the Stepped Care 2.0 model  (SC2.0), looking at the ways SC2.0 has succeeded, the difficulties  administrators face when implementing it, and how it could be improved.  Chapters touch on topics including: the evidence for stepped care, the  way SC2.0 can be stymied by the Western cultural values that dominate  mental healthcare, implementation science and SC2.0, the risk paradigm  and SC2.0, the model’s one-at-a-time approach to therapy, what co-design  means in an SC2.0 context, a case study on how implementing SC2.0 can  go wrong, the understanding of recovery put forward by the model, and  how SC2.0 can work for clients experiencing complex, persistent, or  chronic mental health issues. Each chapter is followed by a reflection  from Cornish, and the book concludes with a roundtable discussion about  how SC2.0 can evolve to meet the challenges it faces. 

This text brings theory and practice together by including an updated version of Stepped Care 2.0: A Paradigm Shift in Mental Health, as well as the full text of Stepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums.