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When mental health systems are examined from the perspective of consumer/survivor involvement, most of them, including those often considered to be mature, are still in their infancy A truly mature mental health system would be one in which it is taken for granted that consumer/survivors are included and actively involved at all levels of mental health service delivery system, including uppermost levels of management and policy making. As mental health systems mature and as they develop services based on the concepts of community treatment, psychiatric rehabilitation, and recovery, they also change their views of the abilities of people with psychiatric disabilities. Increasingly, the service recipient is being viewed as an equal partner in the treatment process, not a passive service user. Mature mental health systems recognize that there is virtually no difference in intelligence, ability, and talents between people who have experienced treatment in the mental health system and those who have not. The difference is in perspective, and this different point of view is viewed as valuable, worthwhile, and important. Mature mental health systems also recognize that the opinions of peo

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Author

Sinikka McCabe; Rae E. Unzicker

Publisher

Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Jossey-Bass Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0193-9416)

Published

1995

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)