Description
This adaptable book offers diverse applications of the empowerment model to the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental illness. Topics span the developmental trends of empowerment as an individual achievement, a community experience, and a professional aim in relation to social intervention strategies and tactics.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Studies in Empowerment: Introduction to the Issue, Julian Rappaport; Chapter 2 Citizen Empowerment: A Developmental Perspective, Charles H. Kieffer; Chapter 3 Empowerment in a Religious Setting: A Multivariate Investigation, Kenneth I. Maton, Julian Rappaport; Chapter 4 The Fort McDowell Yavapai: From Pawns to Powerbrokers, Michael J. O'Sullivan, Natalie Waugh, Wendy Espeland; Chapter 5 Vehicles for Empowerment: The Case of Feminist Movement Organizations, Stephanie Riger; Chapter 6 Help Seeking and Receiving in Urban Ethnic Neighborhoods: Strategies for Empowerment, David E. Biegel; Chapter 7 Creating and Using Social Technologies for Community Empowerment, Stephen B. Fawcett, Tom Seekins, Paula L. Whang, Charles Muiu, Yolanda Suarez de Ba1cazar; Chapter 8 The Illusion of Empowerment: Community Development Within a Colonial Context, Irma Serrano-García; Chapter 9 Empowerment and Synergy: Expanding the Community's Healing Resources, Richard Katz; Chapter 10 Thoughts on Empowerment, Robert Hess;
