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Three Perspectives on the Rehabilitation Needs of Consumers

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
April 1999

Abstract

Empowering individuals with serious mental health problems includes providing services which they themselves identify as needs. This paper reports on a study which examined needs for rehabilitation services from the perspectives of consumers with chronic mental health problems, their significant others, and case managers. In most instances far greater needs for services were expressed by consumers and significant others than by case managers, indicating that case managers pay insufficient attention to what consumers want. Professional control and power imbalance between case managers and consumers likely contribute to this situation. Study findings have been used to initiate change at the organizational level and at the level of individual professionals.

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Afin de restituer le contrôle aux individus atteints de problèmes sérieux de santé mentale, il faut leur fournir des services dont ils identifient eux-mêmes le besoin. Cet article fait état d'une étude qui examine les besoins de services pour la réinsertion, è partir de la perspective des consommateurs et des consommatrices de ces services qui sont atteintes de graves problèmes de santé mentale, ainsi que de la perspective de leurs compagnons et de celle de leurs travailleuses sociales et de leurs travailleurs sociaux. Dans la plupart des cas, les consommatcurs et les consommatrices et leurs compagnons ont exprimé des hesoins excédant largement les besoins identifiés par les travailleuses sociales et les travailleurs sociaux, ce qui tendrait è prouver que les travailleuses sociales et les travailleurs sociaux devraient prêter plus grande attention aux genres de priorités identifies par les consommateurs et les consommatrices. Les résultats de cette étude ont été utilisés afin d'amorcer des changements au niveau d'organisation et au niveau des professionnets particuliers et des professionnelles particulières, et afin d'aborder des problèmes lets que le contrôle professionel et le déséquilibre du pouvoir entre le personnel de la santé mentale et les consommateurs et consommatrices.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 18Number 1April 1999
Pages: 199 - 211

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Version of record online: 4 May 2009

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Kim Calsaferri
Greater Vancouver Mental Health Services
Lyn Jongbloed
University of British Columbia

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