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Open Dialogue is a Finnish-pioneered mental health approach focusing on immediate, network-based care, now being implemented across the UK. It emphasizes family involvement, transparent decision-making, and social network support over traditional, hospital-centric care. The approach aims to reduce hospitalizations, antipsychotic usage, and the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) to roughly three weeks. 

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Key Aspects of the Finnish Approach

• Origin: Developed in the 1980s in Western Lapland, Finland, by Jaakko Seikkula and his team.
• Core Principles: Immediate help (within 24 hours), social network perspective, and flexible, consistent support.
• Dialogue Structure: Meetings involve the person in crisis, their family, friends, and clinicians together. No meetings happen without the patient, ensuring transparency.
• Results: Studies show up to 86% of patients returned to work or full-time study within five years, with significantly fewer relapses. 
• NELFT NHS Foundation Trust +4

Implementation in the UK

• Pilot Projects: Several NHS Trusts have piloted the model, notably in London (NELFT).
• Training & Research: Open Dialogue UK provides training, with studies (like ODDESSI) investigating its effectiveness within the NHS.
• Approach: It is seen as a distinct alternative to traditional UK mental health care, focusing on trauma-informed, person-centered, and rights-based care. 
• NELFT NHS Foundation Trust +3

Would you like more information on the training requirements for practitioners or details on the results of the NHS pilot studies?9 sites

• NHS Open Dialogue | NELFT NHS Foundation TrustThe NHS Open Dialogue Project. NELFT is leading on a national multi-centre Open Dialogue pilot that seeks to transform the model o…NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
• Open dialogue in the UK: qualitative study – PMC – NIHOpen dialogue is an approach to specialist mental healthcare that originated from the need-adapted approach in Western Lapland, Fi…National Institutes of Health (.gov)
• Open Dialogue FinlandHospitalisation is avoided and its consequential stigma, preferring to meet in the homes of those seeking their services. They avo…Developing Open Dialogue

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