On Our Own, Together
Subtitle: Peer Programs For People With Mental Illness
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780826514653
Subjects: Mental health services; Services for; Peer counseling in rehabilitat; Mental Illness; Consumer Health; Self-help groups; Psychology; Rehabilitation; Peer counseling in rehabilitation; Health Care Issues; Mental Health; Movements - General; Mentally ill
First sentence: In the winter of 1998, mental health consumers from eight different states met in Washington, DC, to join researchers and government representatives to begin a four-year federal study of the workings of peer-run programs.