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The Families and Democracy and Citizen Health Care Project
Author(s) -
Doherty William J.,
Mendenhall Tai J.,
Berge Jerica M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2009.00142.x
Subject(s) - democracy , work (physics) , public relations , set (abstract data type) , health care , order (exchange) , political science , sociology , public health , public administration , medicine , nursing , politics , law , business , mechanical engineering , finance , computer science , programming language , engineering
This article describes and updates the work of the Families and Democracy and Citizen Health Care Project, which engages with community concerns in order to effect change on many system levels. The project draws on family therapy's tradition of interest in larger social issues and adds democratic public theory and community organizing strategies. Since 1999 we have developed 14 citizen initiatives with a wide range of groups on a diverse set of problem areas. We describe the overall project and several of its initiatives, we address research and evaluation issues, and we outline opportunities for marriage and family therapists to learn how to do this work in their own communities.