Empowering people with severe mental illness
Subtitle: a practical guide
By: Donald M. Linhorst.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Mentally ill -- Services for -- United States; Social work with people with mental disabilities -- United States
Description: "Presents a model of empowerment and then applies it to seven areas that the have potential to empower people with severe mental illness, including treatment planning, housing, employment, and others. Provides practitioners, administrators, and policymakers with specific guidelines and actions to promote empowerment"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptualizing Empowerment; title: A History of Powerlessness; title: Individual Rights, Coercion, and Empowerment; title: Conditions for Empowerment; title: Empowerment through Treatment Planning; title: Empowerment through Housing; title: Empowerment through Organizational Decision Making; title: Empowerment through Planning and Policy Making; title: Empowerment through Employment; title: Empowerment through Research; title: Empowerment through Service Provision; title: Creating and Living Empowered Lives.