Overview
"Provides a comprehensive, practical approach to fully integrating people with serious mental illnesses into the community. Drawing from a range of resources, including mental health consumers and their families, this pathbreaking work lays the groundwork for a critical rethinking of how we view people labeled ""mentally ill"". Defining ""community integration,"" the author examines current and past approaches to meeting the needs of people with psychiatric disabilities, demonstrating how they have been inadequate. Carling then maps out a pioneering paradigm for community integration, which consists of an active partnership among mental health professionals, community leaders, policy makers, families, neighbors, employers, and realtors. Describing ways to prepare the community to organize for change, the book discusses the need to first address the pervasive nature of stigma, which is reflected at every level of society. Drawing from his own extensive experience, as well as from firsthand observations of model programs in place throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia, the author offers detailed guidance for organizing a program of action in mental health systems and in local communities."
Full Product Details
Author: Paul J. Carling
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Imprint: Guilford Publications
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.506kg
ISBN: 9780898623239
ISBN 10: 0898623235
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 15 February 1995
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
If you're looking for a compelling analysis of the need for consumer input and leadership in mental health service systems, and analysis that goes beyond the all-too-typical fatuous writing about consumers and empowerment, this may be your book. The first three chapters lay out the rationale for consumer participation and community integration in a way that is unequaled by anything I have read in the mental health services literature. --Thomas J Powell, University of Michigan, Social Work <br> The book woke me up. It is, in many senses, a work of personal passion, and this passion, provocative, and precious is engaging. The chapter describing the consumer self-help movement could be an especially valuable tool for teaching psychiatric residents and other trainees about the consumer perspective...the volume lays out Carling's enlightened, informed, inspiring perspective, buttressed by data and practical experience. It is extremely valuable for consumers, professionals, family members, and all others whose private or public lives are touched by the disability of mental illness. --Lisa Dixon, MD, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease <br> Well-constructed and easy to read it is a primary resource on the consumer movement and on models of contemporary mental health service delivery. Psychologists, especially those who work with persons with major mental illnesses, will be enlightened by its empirical examples of the power of dignity and choice and its refreshingly operational approaches to solving the basic pragmatic (and therapeutic) issues of community living. --Harriet P. Lefley in Contemporary Psychology <br> This book is a comprehensive guide for those who seek to include people with psychiatric disabilities in the planning and implementing of services.... The book is thoroughly researched and referenced and... the ideas are clearly presented and easily applicable. --Sally Davis, the University College of Rip
If you're looking for a compelling analysis of the need for consumer input and leadership in mental health service systems, and analysis that goes beyond the all-too-typical fatuous writing about consumers and empowerment, this may be your book. The first three chapters lay out the rationale for consumer participation and community integration in a way that is unequaled by anything I have read in the mental health services literature. --Thomas J Powell, University of Michigan, Social Work <br> The book woke me up. It is, in many senses, a work of personal passion, and this passion, provocative, and precious is engaging. The chapter describing the consumer self-help movement could be an especially valuable tool for teaching psychiatric residents and other trainees about the consumer perspective...the volume lays out Carling's enlightened, informed, inspiring perspective, buttressed by data and practical experience. It is extremely valuable for consumers, professionals, family mem
Dr Carling once again has confronted issues facing the future of mental health as it moves into a new or perhaps renewed era of consumer-directed services. His numerous publications on empowerment, community integration, and rehabilitation have addressed some of the more important issues in the development and delivery of services for individuals with psychiatric disabilities. The current book synthesizes many of his ideas and insights in a well-organized and thought-provoking discussion of how to achieve community intergration and community support for these individuals. But unlike other books that present only the hopes of what could be, Dr. Carling presents a blueprint for specific actions necessary to achieve these goals....an important and timely book. Changes in the political and economic climates and the growing voices of consumers and families are forcing mental health professionals to think differently about all aspects of service development and delivery. This book provides a wealth of suggestions and examples that mental health professionals from all disciplines will find helpful and enlightening. -- Psychiatric Services <br>.,. a very timely book indeed....a powerful and comprehensive argument for the community process approach and its natural end point; community integration....Carling has produced essential reading for those in the community mental health movement....The discussions of strategies for promoting change are refreshingly practical....the book is rich with program examples and good stories....an informative, entertaining, and passionate book. -- Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health <br>
Author Information
Paul J. Carling, PhD, formerly director of the Center for Community Change at Trinity College of Vermont, is currently on the faculty of the Program in Community Mental Health at Southern New Hampshire University. He is Senior Consultant of the Centre for Community Change International.
