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Advocacy and empowerment : mental health care in the community /
Deinstitutionalization, as a social policy, has had a complex and confusing history. We will try to unravel much of the complexity and decipher a good deal of the mystification surrounding this policy in order to develop a clear and coherent framework for creating and sustaining a positive and syste...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
1985.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Deinstitutionalization, as a social policy, has had a complex and confusing history. We will try to unravel much of the complexity and decipher a good deal of the mystification surrounding this policy in order to develop a clear and coherent framework for creating and sustaining a positive and systematic practice in the area of mental health after-care. The first section of the book is theoretical--our effort to explain the social world of working in mental health after-care. Initially, we provide a brief analysis of deinstitutionalization as a social policy, looking carefully at who it was intended to serve and who in fact has benefited from its existence. Section II presents five different arenas in which advocacy/ empowerment practice can be implemented in the field of mental health after-care. We conclude with a brief summary based on inter-organizational theory which we see as necessary to organizational survival. We hope to suggest pathways for advocacy/empowerment program or agency survival since the struggle for progressive development is one continually in need of support in the face of certain threats from conventional provider systems. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-231). |
| ISBN: | 9780203200131 0203200136 1134746725 9781134746729 1280060182 9781280060182 9786610060184 6610060185 |