The solution of the future now
Municipalities offer various programs and services to provide their residents mental health care. There’s a broad range of services and it’s not always as easy to know what helps and what does not – until now.
Municipalities offer various programs and services to provide their residents mental health care. There’s a broad range of services and it’s not always as easy to know what helps and what does not – until now.
4 domains that map resources, symptom severity, functioning and sustaning factors.
20 subscales developed to draw attention to a dimensional understanding of suffering, risk and resource factors, as well as highlighting an action-oriented and user-adapted focus.
The sidebar provides additional information on suicidality, single scores, life events and more.
All items asked in the assessment and associated changes, together with descriptions of the subscale are available in the side panel.
Feedback from patient on alliance and treatment needs.
3 assessments are displayed: the initial assessment, previous assessment and current assessment.
The patient routinely answers questions related to suicidality.
“Being able to visualize progress in a graph, I experience is effective in itself. It seems to contribute so that the patient experiences “having done something”, that treatment actually helps…”
“This is incredibly good. Having a systematic feedback system, not only after the treatment is finished, but also during it.”
“I have experienced how useful and positive it is to use feedback tools in the daily work with patients. I quickly gain insight into the patient’s resources and challenges.”
“I have patients who have said that it is easier to tell me how they feel when they can sit at home in peace and quiet and fill in Norse. They are then “inside their bubble”, as one said, and it is not so easy to smooth over how she really feels, something she often does if we just ask in a conversation.”
Norse is developed on a modern platform. Ease of use, fewer clicks and adaptation to existing user flow is absolutely essential for us. When the respondent is more involved in their own treatment, and does tasks in advance of a meeting with their therapist, this decreases time spent and increases the quality of the meetings for everyone involved. This is what we want to facilitate.
Here’s an example of how we can be incorporated into existing services:
Many municipalities in Norway offers rapid mental health care, or other low-threshold services. This offer is not immediately found when browsing mental health sections on their websites. With Norse Mental Health and Substance Use you can link to an assessment early on the page for a full digital process to start assessing those looking for help straight away. The assessment team in charge then gets a completely different overview over resources, problem areas, and the severity, of the person seeking help.
Welcome dear citizen
Do you want to know what services we can offer you? Click on the link and fill in the asessment. Your answers help us to offer you better help. We will contact you within 48 hours.
Simple, right?
When you offer a Norse-assessment at the earliest time possible to someone who is seeking help, it will be easier to offer proper help. With a Norse Self-Register link a person can on their own initiative complete the assessment directly in the browser via email/SMS that is sent out to them. Assessments with high risk will be highlighted when you log in to the system.
Municipalities work with a wide range of issues. Norse Mental Health and Substance Use provides a comprehensive picture of the user’s resources and problem areas. Questions about housing, finances and functioning in addition to symptoms and maintenance factors enable the municipality to provide the right treatment. The respondent contributes to all processes and a therapist or practitioner can more easily create and maintain a good alliance.
Regular use of Norse Mental Health and Substance Use provides the practitioner and the respondent a better foundation for determining the need for further treatment. Over time, you can document what works, directly based on the respondents feedback. Collaborative practice then becomes an expression with weight and meaning.
You can easily send out an assessment from Norse, or it can be automatically scheduled based on appointments. The patient clicks the link inside the SMS or email, and can start to answer straight away.
The answers are instantly available inside the therapist report section. The starting point for the meeting between patient and therapist is now based on better information.
It’s challenging to communicate mental illness clearly. By answering questions before appointments many patients experience being able to express their situation more clearly. Feedback shows that Norse is an excellent conversation starter!
With a broad assessment, both patient and therapist together will create an understanding about resource and problem areas. Through the course of treatment, it will be possible to visualize and see the effects of the work done. Therapist and patient will together reach a common understanding and collaborate during the treatment. This is collaborative practice.