Community Psychology and Community Mental Health: Towards Transformative Change

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• Highlights concrete examples of transformative practices and policies and how they can be achieved
• Focuses on innovation and transformation in community mental health
• Provides policy-level strategies for organizations to make within community settings and mental health practices

Mental health practices and programs around the world face growing criticism from policymakers, consumers, and service providers for being ineffective, overly reliant on treatment by professionals, and overly focused on symptoms. Many have called for new paradigms of mental health and new practices that can better support recovery, community integration, and adaptive functioning for persons diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities. While there has recently been much discourse about transformation and recovery, there has yet to be a critical and systematic review that unpacks the concept of mental health systems transformation or that examines strategies for how to create transformative change in mental health.

Community Psychology and Community Mental Health provides empirical justification and a conceptual foundation for transformative change in mental health, based on community psychology values and principles of ecology, collaboration, empowerment, and social justice. Chapters provide strategies for making changes at the level of society, policy, organizations, community settings, and mental health practices. The editors and authors draw from experience in different countries in recognition of the need to tailor change strategies to different contexts. The common experiences of the international perspectives represented underscore the importance and the need for a new paradigm while demonstrating that there are many alternatives and opportunities for pursuing transformative change. This book will be of interest to community mental health professionals, researchers, and students, as well as policymakers, administrators, and those with lived experience of mental health issues.

Part I. Overview of Community Psychology, Community Mental Health, and Transformative Change
Chapter 1. Transformative Change in Community Mental Health: A Community Psychology Framework
Geoffrey Nelson, Bret Kloos, and José Ornelas
Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on Transformative Change
Chapter 2. Drawing Upon Community Psychology History and Theory as Resources for Transformative Change in Mental Health
Bret Kloos, José Ornelas, and Geoffrey Nelson
Chapter 3. Perspectives on Transformative Change in Community Mental Health
John Sylvestre
Chapter 4. The Capabilities Approach to Transformative Change in Mental Health
Marybeth Shinn
Part III. Transformative Change and Consumer Participation
Chapter 5. Transforming Mental Health Care through the Participation of the Recovery Community
Larry Davidson, Priscilla Ridgway, Maria O'Connell, and Thomas A. Kirk, Jr.
Chapter 6. The Impact of Mental Health Consumer-Run Organizations on Transformative Change
Louis D. Brown and Susan Rogers
Part IV. Transformative Change in Services and Practices
Chapter 7. Wellness Recovery Action Planning: The Role of Wellness Promotion in a New Paradigm of Community Mental Health
Mary Ellen Copeland and Jessica A. Jonikas
Chapter 8. Defining the Competencies of Different Stakeholders in a Transformed Mental Health System
Tim Aubry and Mary O'Hagan
Chapter 9. Planning Transformative Change for Mental Health Services for Cultural-linguistic Communities
Geoffrey Nelson, Hsiao d'Ailly, Joanna Ochocka, Rich Janzen, Sarah Maiter, and Nora Jacobson
Part V. Transformative Community Change
Chapter 10. Recovering Community in Mental Health: The Contributions and Challenges of Community Psychology
Bret Kloos, Greg Townley, Victoria Chien, Betsy Davis, Laura Kurzban, and David Asiamah
Chapter 11. Who Is John?: Community Integration as a Paradigm for Transformative Change in Community Mental Health
Mark Salzer and Richard C. Baron
Part VI. Transformative Change of Social Conditions
Chapter 12. Transformative Organizational Change in Community Mental Health
José Ornelas, Teresa Duarte, and Maria Fátima Jorge-Monteiro
Chapter 13. Housing First and System/Community Transformation
Paula Goering and Sam Tsemberis
Chapter 14. Supported Education as a Vehicle for Transformative Change in Mental Health Treatment Philosophy
Karen Unger
Part VII. Transformative Policy Change
Chapter 15. Beginning to Take Control: Ontario's Consumer/Survivor Development Initiative
John Trainor and David Reville
Chapter 16. Recovery-oriented Mental Health Policies: Implications for Transformative
Change in Five Nations
Myra Piat and Lauren Polvere
Part VIII. Conclusion
Chapter 17. Transforming Research for Transformative Change in Mental Health: Towards the Future
Nev Jones, Lauren Munro, Jay Harrison, Rita Aguiar
Chapter 18. Transformative Change in Community Mental Health: Future Directions
Geoffrey Nelson, Bret Kloos, and José Ornelas