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The concept of empowerment has become increasingly popular with mental health professionals. But while it is a frequently cited goal in the helping professions, empowerment is often nothing more than a buzzword that lacks specificity and grounding in real-world applications. Consequently, little practical guidance exists demonstrating how to achieve it in specific instances with specific groups of people. This book is the first professional guide that operationalizes the theory of empowerment, outlines the conditions under which it is likely to occur, and applies a practical model for working with people with severe mental illness. In this unique and thoroughly researched volume, Donald Linhorst analyzes the conditions that facilitate empowerment and provides the framework necessary to bolster this historically powerless population's access to the material and cultural resources they need to regain control of their lives. Chapters illustrate how to foster empowerment in treatment planning, housing selection, organizational decision making, mental health service planning and policy making, employment, participation in research and evaluation, and consumer provision of mental health and support services. Case studies from a public psychiatric hospital and a community mental health agency illustrate each of the seven areas and present evidence of the model's efficacy. Finally, the book maps out the roles that service providers, administrators, policy makers, advocacy groups, researchers, and clients can play in the empowerment process. Checklists, step-by-step instructions, historical overviews, and vivid examples make this a valuable teaching tool, planning guide, and everyday reference for mental health professionals seeking an innovative and evidence-based approach to working with their clients with severe mental illness.

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• 1 Conceptualizing Empowerment
• 2 A History of Powerlessness
• 3 Individual Rights, Coercion, and Empowerment
• 4 Conditions for Empowerment
• 5 Empowerment through Treatment Planning
• 6 Empowerment through Housing
• 7 Empowerment through Organizational Decision Making
• 8 Empowerment through Planning and Policy Making
• 9 Empowerment through Employment
• 10 Empowerment through Research
• 11 Empowerment through Service Provision
• 12 Creating and Living Empowered Lives

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"In this thoroughly researched volume, Donald Linhorst analyzes the conditions that facilitate empowerment and provides the framework necessary to bolster this historically powerless population's access to the material and cultural resources they need to regain control of their lives. Chapters illustrate how to foster empowerment in treatment planning, housing selection, organizational decision making, mental health service planning and policy-making, employment, participation in research and evaluation, and consumer provision of mental health and support services. Case studies from a public psychiatric hospital and a community mental health agency illustrate each of the seven areas and present evidence of the model's efficacy. Finally, the book maps out the roles that service providers, administrators, policymakers, advocacy groups, researchers, and clients, can play in the empowerment process." "Checklists, step-by-step instructions, historical overviews, and vivid examples make this a valuable teaching tool, planning guide, and everyday reference for mental health professionals seeking an innovative and evidence based approach to working with their clients with severe mental illness."--BOOK JACKET.

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This practical manual is intended to help social workers and mental health professionals foster the cultural and social conditions conducive to empowering people with severe mental illness in institutional settings, as well as those who live independently. Linhorst (social work, Saint Louis Univ.) defines empowerment as the capacity to act with agency in making important decisions in one's life. Chapters survey the history of the institutional treatment of the mentally ill from Colonial times to the present and recent legislation and case law that protects the disabled and the mentally ill, guaranteeing patients procedural rights and a humane standard of care. Given the history of powerlessness and legal coercion, under what conditions can people with severe mental illness be empowered? Linhorst formulates nine conditions for empowering people: managing psychiatric symptoms, participation skills, psychological readiness to engage others, mutual respect and trust, reciprocal concrete incentives, availability of choices, participation structures and processes, access to resources, and supportive culture. He then applies this rubric to chapters devoted to patient empowerment in treatment planning, housing, organizational decision making, employment, research, and service provision. This book is an indispensable resource for policy makers, educators, students, and service providers. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. J. H. Rubin St. Joseph College

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Donald M. Linhorst is at St. Louis University.