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Community control or control of the community? the case of the community mental health center
Author(s) -
Nassi Alberta J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(197801)6:1<3::aid-jcop2290060102>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - control (management) , mental health , proposition , politics , center (category theory) , social control , community center , community health , public relations , community organization , sociology , psychology , nursing , political science , medicine , management , psychiatry , social science , law , economics , public health , philosophy , chemistry , recreation , epistemology , crystallography
This paper analyzes the powerful professional and social forces arrayed against community control. True community control is seen to be in danger of being compromised and co‐opted by the mental health establishment. A radical and untried proposition, the implementation of community control, awaits broader institutional and political reform.