How Do Clients Obtain Mental Health Information? Commentary on “Consumer Perspectives on Information and Other Inputs to Decision-Making: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice”.

The article presents a commentary regarding a study of S. Tannebaum which evaluates the health care systems among information-seeking clients of community mental health services. It states that the study was only conducted in two locations which limited to the validity of its data. It mentions that clients respect clinicians who attempt to bridge idiographic and nomothetic knowledge and acknowledge service providers who pursue integration of findings of the study to treatment plan. It also suggests that there is a need for a concerted effort among doctors to raise individual client phenomenology, peculiarities and preferences on illness and treatment.