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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Main Authors: Nelson, Geoffrey B. (Geoffrey Brian) (Author), Ochocka, Joanna (Author), Lord, John, 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Service de sante mentale.
Service communautaire.
Politique de la sante
Changement organisationnel.
Participation du public.
Lokale gemeenschappen.
Informele zorg.
Psychiatrische patiënten.
Community mental health services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Services communautaires de sante mentale > Ontario > Waterloo.
Services communautaires de sante mentale > Ontario > Kitchener.
Community Mental Health Centers > organization & administration
Community Mental Health Services > trends
Community mental health services > Ontario > Waterloo.
Community mental health services > Ontario > Kitchener.
Kitchener (Ont.)
Waterloo (Quebec)
Ontario > Waterloo.
Ontario > Kitchener.
Canada
Livres numeriques.
e-books.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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