Community psychology and community mental health : towards transformative change / edited by Geoffrey Nelson, Bret Kloos, and Jose Ornelas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Geoffrey B. (Geoffrey Brian), editor.

Kloos, Bret, editor.

Ornelas, José, editor.

Series:

Advances in community psychology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community mental health services.

Community psychology.

Change.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 401 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

"Mental health practices and programs around the world face growing criticism from policymakers, consumers, and service providers for being ineffective, overly reliant on treatment by professionals, and overly focused on symptoms. Many have called for new paradigms of mental health and new practices that can better support recovery, community integration, and adaptive functioning for persons diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities. While there has recently been much discourse about transformation and recovery, there has yet to be a critical and systematic review that unpacks the concept of mental health systems transformation or that examines strategies for how to create transformative change in mental health. Community Psychology and Community Mental Health provides empirical justification and a conceptual foundation for transformative change in mental health, based on community psychology values and principles of ecology, collaboration, empowerment, and social justice. Chapters provide strategies for making changes at the level of society, policy, organizations, community settings, and mental health practices. The editors and authors draw from experience in different countries in recognition of the need to tailor change strategies to different contexts. The common experiences of the international perspectives represented underscore the importance and the need for a new paradigm while demonstrating that there are many alternatives and opportunities for pursuing transformative change. This book will be of interest to community mental health professionals, researchers, and students, as well as policymakers, administrators, and those with lived experience of mental health issues"-- Provided by publisher.

"Community Psychology and Community Mental Health provides theoretical justification and a conceptual foundation for transformative change in mental health, based on community psychology values and principles of ecology, collaboration, empowerment, and social justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Foreword by Julian Rappaport

Part I. Overview of Community Psychology, Community Mental Health, and Transformative Change

Chapter 1. Transformative Change in Community Mental Health: A Community Psychology Framework

Geoffrey Nelson, Bret Kloos, and José Ornelas

Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on Transformative Change

Chapter 2. Drawing Upon Community Psychology History and Theory as Resources for Transformative Change in Mental Health

Bret Kloos, José Ornelas, and Geoffrey Nelson

Chapter 3. Perspectives on Transformative Change in Community Mental Health

John Sylvestre

Chapter 4. The Capabilities Approach to Transformative Change in Mental Health

Marybeth Shinn

Part III. Transformative Change and Consumer Participation

Chapter 5. Transforming Mental Health Care through the Participation of the Recovery Community

Larry Davidson, Priscilla Ridgway, Maria O'Connell, and Thomas A. Kirk, Jr.

Chapter 6. The Impact of Mental Health Consumer-Run Organizations on Transformative Change

Louis D. Brown and Susan Rogers

Part IV. Transformative Change in Services and Practices

Chapter 7. Wellness Recovery Action Planning: The Role of Wellness Promotion in a New Paradigm of Community Mental Health

Mary Ellen Copeland and Jessica A. Jonikas

Chapter 8. Defining the Competencies of Different Stakeholders in a Transformed Mental Health System

Tim Aubry and Mary O'Hagan

Chapter 9. Planning Transformative Change for Mental Health Services for Cultural-linguistic Communities

Geoffrey Nelson, Hsiao d'Ailly, Joanna Ochocka, Rich Janzen, Sarah Maiter, and Nora Jacobson

Part V. Transformative Community Change

Chapter 10. Recovering Community in Mental Health: The Contributions and Challenges of Community Psychology

Bret Kloos, Greg Townley, Victoria Chien, Betsy Davis, Laura Kurzban, and David Asiamah

Chapter 11. Who Is John?: Community Integration as a Paradigm for Transformative Change in Community Mental Health

Mark Salzer and Richard C. Baron

Part VI. Transformative Change of Social Conditions

Chapter 12. Transformative Organizational Change in Community Mental Health

José Ornelas, Teresa Duarte, and Maria Fátima Jorge-Monteiro

Chapter 13. Housing First and System/Community Transformation

Paula Goering and Sam Tsemberis

Chapter 14. Supported Education as a Vehicle for Transformative Change in Mental Health Treatment Philosophy

Karen Unger

Part VII. Transformative Policy Change

Chapter 15. Beginning to Take Control: Ontario's Consumer/Survivor Development Initiative

John Trainor and David Reville

Chapter 16. Recovery-oriented Mental Health Policies: Implications for Transformative

Change in Five Nations

Myra Piat and Lauren Polvere

Part VIII. Conclusion

Chapter 17. Transforming Research for Transformative Change in Mental Health: Towards the Future

Nev Jones, Lauren Munro, Jay Harrison, Rita Aguiar

Chapter 18. Transformative Change in Community Mental Health: Future Directions

Geoffrey Nelson, Bret Kloos, and José Ornelas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199362424

0199362424

OCLC:

881020168