You can take simple and immediate steps to incorporate relational health into your practice without adding significantly to the already overwhelming demands you may face. By doing so, you may decrease the stress for your patients, your staff and yourself.  

As a clinician you can focus on: 

• Your relationship with your patients
• Assessing for your patients’ emotional health 
• Tying in to other screens and assessments 
• Supporting your patients’ relationship with their caregivers 
• Providing relational health interventions and referrals when needed

As a practice you can:

• Make time: Consider existing workflows and how your team can provide different activities that promote patients’ relational health by  considering how the work fits in with what you are already doing.
• Connect to resources:  Most communities have existing networks, formal and informal, you can connect your patients to for the concrete and community supports they need after they leave your office.