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The role of community integration and empowerment for the transformative change in community mental health
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The present article first presents a critique about the current status of the community mental
health (CMH) field. Second, based on theoretical and empirical literature, it presents a
perspective inspired by the inception of community psychology, namely the empowerment and
community integration principles to offer a challenging framework to inspire reforms in the
CMH field. The article also discusses two promising CMH practices, supported employment
and independent housing with support, determinant for the transformation of life conditions
for people experiencing mental illness while promoting people’s empowerment and
integration in the community. The authors argue that CMH programs and practices focused
on integration together with self-representation movements, organisations, or networks
aligned with the community psychology acting principles have the potential to inform a
renovated partnership within CMH stakeholders and bring about sustainable change focused on the active citizenship for people who experience mental illness.
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Keywords
Community mental health Empowerment Recovery Community integration
Citation
Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 5(1) 38-55
Publisher
Universita del Salento