Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Redefining the Needs of Mental Health Consumers
1. Community Integration: The Challenge to Traditional Mental Health Services
2. Foundations for a New Approach
3. Mental Health Consumers and the Consumer Self-Help Movement
II. Organizing for Community Change
4. Preparing for Organizing
5. Strategies for Change
III. Achieving Community Integration
6. Revamping Established Support Systems: Mental Heatlh Systems and Higher Education
7. Improving Access to, Preserving, and Developing Housing
8. Creating Employment Opportunities
9. Promoting Social Integration
IV. Empowering Consumers and Their Families
10. Sharing Power with Consumers
11. Involving Families as Partners in the Process of Change
Conclusion: Future Challenges and New Directions

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Will change the reader, and cause a rethinking of attitudes and assumptions about mental health treatment... Carling offers concrete suggestions about how services can be organized, how housing can be developed, and how true community integration can be facilitated. The book suggests new ways that we as mental health professionals can work with our clients". R? Ronald J. Diamond, M.D.