Empowering and demedicalized case management practices: Perspectives of mental health consumer leaders and professionals

Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-17

  Ellison, Marsha Langer ^a,b   Dunn, Erin C ^c  

^a Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation   (United States)

^b Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case management; Community support; Empowerment; Medical model; Medicalization; Mental health services; Recovery; Serious mental illness; Social work

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746825423     PISSN: 1536710X     EISSN: 15367118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J198v05n02_01     Document Type: Article

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