I. Introduction
The Profile of Participation (PoP) is a tool that helps community-based mental health service providers understand their clients’ engagement in activities of daily living. Completing the PoP provides a comprehensive description of a person’s current participation in important and meaningful activities of daily living as well as their desired level of participation in meaningful activities of daily living.
Understanding your clients’ real-world participation in meaningful activities of daily living, including their priorities and goals for participation, is a critical aspect of providing client-centered care that focuses on recovery and wellbeing. Knowing your clients’ well is necessary to develop rapport and engage in authentic collaboration with your client to co-identify meaningful treatment goals and feasible interventions to achieve those goals.
Understanding your clients’ capabilities and know-how regarding performing tasks and activities that are necessary for independent living is important to understand how to provide tenancy support and to optimize your clients’ participation and functional independence.
II. Why use the PoP?
The PoP describes how a person functions when participating in different activities of daily living in different environments. This will help you and your client identify areas where your client would benefit from support or training to improve their participation and functional capabilities.
The PoP covers many areas of participation and function that are easily and often overlooked by service providers and their clients. Obtaining a comprehensive overview of a person’s participation will help you identify targets that you and your client may have never considered. It will also help you identify easy-to-achieve successes and functional gains for intervention (i.e. ‘low hanging fruit’). These intervention targets are often overlooked since they are often not the most significant challenges a client is facing in maintaining tenancy and their desired level of independent living. Easy-to-achieve functional gains can be an important tool in fostering rapport and in supporting a client’s sense of self-esteem and self-efficacy (i.e. the belief one can succeed, attain goals and overcome challenges). Supporting self-efficacy is an important step in enhancing a client’s ability to achieve levels of participation and function that they find personally meaningful.
Downloads
PoP Manual
Profile of Participation – Chapters
Presenter Bio
Antoine Bailliard, PhD
Dr. Antoine Bailliard is an Associate Professor in the Occupational Therapy Doctorate Division at Duke University and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a consultant and trainer for the Institute for Best Practices and is co-principal investigator of a SAMHSA grant to develop HomeLink, an innovative peer-led team that provides assertive outreach to adults with serious mental illness who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Dr. Bailliard is also a consultant for the Public Mental Health Partnership between the L.A. County Department of Mental Health and UCLA. He is a Co-Founder and Board Co-Chair of the Center for Community Connections, an organization that provides mental health services to enhance participation in meaningful activities and social connection using an occupational justice perspective. Dr. Bailliard’s clinical experience spans from working in acute inpatient mental health, chronic inpatient mental health, and community-based mental health settings.
