Resources to Learn More

The Open Dialogue approach has spread around the world, and there are now a variety of organizations providing more information and training opportunities.  A non-comprehensive set of links is below:

• Open Dialogue: An international website providing information about the approach, reseach and training opportunities

https://open-dialogue.net/

• Developing Open Dialogue: A UK based website with information about Open Dialogue related initiatives and training opportunities in the UK and internationally http://developingopendialogue.com/
• The Institute for Dialogic Practice: The first North-American based program providing International Certification in Open Dialogue. http://www.dialogicpractice.net/
• Open Dialogue Pacific: An organization based in Washington State providing consultation and training

https://www.opendialoguepacific.com/

• Open Dialogue at UCSD: Current initiatives at the University of San Diego Dept of Psychiatry

https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/psychiatry/research/open-dialogue/pages/default.aspx 

Links for presentations about Open Dialogue

• Video– Dr. Christopher Gordon and Brenda Miele Soares, MSW give an Open Dialogue presentation entitled: New approaches to mental health services 
• Video – Dr. Jaakko Seikkula speaks about Open Dialogue
• Madness Radio: Open Dialogue for Psychosis w/ Mary Olson

• National Empowerment Center - Dialogical Recovery from Monological Medicine

Related References

• Aaltonen, J., Seikkula, J., & Lehtinen, K. (2011). Comprehensive open-dialogue approach I: Developing a comprehensive culture of need-adapted approach in a psychiatric public health catchment area the Western Lapland Project. Psychosis, 3, 179 – 191.
• Bergström T, Seikkula J, Alakare B, Mäki P, Köngäs-Saviaro P, Taskila JJ, Tolvanen A, Aaltonen J. (2018). The family-oriented open dialogue approach in the treatment of first-episode psychosis:  Nineteen-year outcomes.  Psychiatry Research 270:168-175.
• Gordon C, Gidugu V, Rogers ES, DeRonck J, Ziedonis D. (2016). Adapting Open Dialogue for early-onset psychosis into the U.S. health care environment: A feasibility study.  Psychiatric Services 67(11):1166-1168.
• Olson, M, Seikkula, J. & Ziedonis, D. (2014). The key elements of dialogic practice in Open Dialogue. The University of Massachusetts Medical School. Worcester, MA.
• Seikkula, J., Aaltonen, J., Alakare, B., & Haarakangas, K. (2006). Five-year experience of first-episode nonaffective psychosis in open-dialogue model. Psychotherapy Research,16(2), 214-228.
• Seikkula, J., Alakare, B., & Aaltonen, J. (2011). The comprehensive open-dialogue approach(II). Long-term stability of acute psychosis outcomes in advanced community care: The Western Lapland Project. Psychosis, 3,1–13.
• Seikkula, J. & Olson, M. (2003). The open dialogue approach: Its poetics and micropolitics. Family Process, 42,403-418.
• Von Peter S, Aderhold V, Cubellis L, Bergström T, Stastny P, Seikkula J, & Puras D. (2019). Open Dialogue as a human rights-aligned approach. Front Psychiatry 10:387, eCollection 2019.