Conceptualizing Empowerment -- A History of Powerlessness -- Individual Rights, Coercion, and Empowerment -- Conditions for Empowerment -- Empowerment through Treatment Planning -- Empowerment through Housing -- Empowerment through Organizational Decision Making -- Empowerment through Planning and Policy Making -- Empowerment through Employment -- Empowerment through Research -- Empowerment through Service Provision -- Creating and Living Empowered Lives
Summary
"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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-344) and index
