Shifting the Paradigm in Community Mental Health : Toward Empowerment and Community.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Author Biographies -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: SETTING THE CONTEXT: PARADIGMS, CHANGE, AND RESEARCH APPROACH -- 1 Looking Back: The Traditional Paradigm in Mental Health -- 2 Moving Ahead: Towards An Empowerment-Community Integration Paradigm in Community Mental Health -- 3 'Nothing about Me without Me': Research Approach and Methodology -- PART TWO: THE STATE AND THE COMMUNITY: POLICY AND MENTAL HEALTH CHANGE -- 4 The Sociopolitical and Policy Context: A Historical Review -- 5 A Time of Change: The Growth of Community Mental Health and the Emergence of an Alternative Paradigm, 1985-1994 -- PART THREE: ONE JOURNEY, THREE PATHWAYS: CHANGE IN MENTAL HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS -- 6 Pathways towards Change: The Process of Organizational Change in Three Mental Health Organizations -- 7 Organizational Change: Outcomes in the Three Community Mental Health Organizations -- PART FOUR: IMPROVING INDIVIDUAL LIVES: DEVELOPING 'SELF IN COMMUNITY' -- 8 Personal Empowerment -- 9 Community Support and Integration -- 10 Social Justice and Access to Valued Resources -- PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS -- 11 Living with Change: Themes and Lessons from Shifting the Paradigm -- 12 The Future: New Directions for the Empowerment-Community Integration Paradigm -- 13 Final Reflections on the Research Process -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Examines changes in the values and practices within community mental health that occurred between 1984 and 1998 in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. A valuable guide for future research, and for consumers and administrators in the mental health field.
9781442679900
Community mental health services-Ontario-Kitchener. Community mental health services.