Chapter Introduction -- part Section I The Theory of Advocacy/ Empowerment Practice -- chapter Problem Definition--A Theory and Orientation -- chapter Practice Theory--Bridging the Gap to Action -- chapter Towards an Advocacy/Empowerment Action Orientation -- chapter Section II The Application of Problem Definition and Practice Principles to Different Arenas of Practice -- chapter Case Management -- chapter Day Programs -- chapter Legal Advocacy and Organizing -- chapter Program Evaluation -- chapter Community Organization -- chapter Conclusion -- chapter Your Legal Rights When You Rent a Room -- chapter Information Sheet about the New Rooming House/Residential Tenant Rights Law -- chapter Important Aspects of the Adult Home Access Law: Chapter 843 of the Laws of 1983 -- chapter Comments on Division of Adult Services Proposed Amendments Governing Adult Homes -- chapter Problems and Prospects in Mental Patients' Rights -- chapter Client Benefit Packet
Summary
Deinstitutionalization, as a social policy, has had a complex and confusing history. We will try to unravel much of the complexity and decipher a good deal of the mystification surrounding this policy in order to develop a clear and coherent framework for creating and sustaining a positive and systematic practice in the area of mental health after-care. The first section of the book is theoretical -- our effort to explain the social world of working in mental health after-care. Initially, we provide a brief analysis of deinstitutionalization as a social policy, looking carefully at who it was intended to serve and who in fact has benefited from its existence.. Section II presents five different arenas in which advocacy/ empowerment practice can be implemented in the field of mental health after-care.. We conclude with a brief summary based on inter-organizational theory which we see as necessary to organizational survival. We hope to suggest pathways for advocacy/empowerment program or agency survival since the struggle for progressive development is one continually in need of support in the face of certain threats from conventional provider systems
Analysis
United States Community mental health services
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-231)
Notes
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