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Shifting the Paradigm in Community Mental Health : Toward Empowerment and Community /

"This study examines changes in the values and practices within community mental health that occurred between 1984 and 1998 in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. During this period, a distinct shift in policy coincided with a new emphasis on mental health reform. This unique two-and-a-half year study...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Nelson, Geoffrey B. (Geoffrey Brian) (Autor), Ochocka, Joanna (Autor), Lord, John, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setting the Context: Paradigms, Change, and Research Approach
  • Looking Back: The Traditional Paradigm in Mental Health
  • Moving Ahead: Towards An Empowerment-Community Integration Paradigm in Community Mental Health
  • 'Nothing about Me without Me': Research Approach and Methodology
  • The State and the Community: Policy and Mental Health Change
  • The Sociopolitical and Policy Context: A Historical Review
  • A Time of Change: The Growth of Community Mental Health and the Emergence of an Alternative Paradigm, 1985-1994
  • One Journey, Three Pathways: Change in Mental Health Organizations
  • Pathways towards Change: The Process of Organizational Change in Three Mental Health Organizations
  • Organizational Change: Outcomes in the Three Community Mental Health Organizations
  • Improving Individual Lives: Developing 'Self in Community'
  • Personal Empowerment
  • Community Support and Integration
  • Social Justice and Access to Valued Resources
  • Living with Change: Themes and Lessons from Shifting the Paradigm
  • The Future: New Directions for the Empowerment-Community Integration Paradigm
  • Final Reflections on the Research Process.