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Community Psychology and Community Mental Health
Community Psychology and Community Mental Health provides empirical justification and a conceptual foundation for transformative change in mental health, based on community psychology values and principles of ecology, collaboration, empowerment, and social justice.
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Multiple Barriers
Despite decades of efforts to combat homelessness, many people continue to experience it in Canada’s major cities. There are a number of barriers that prevent effective responses to homelessness, including a lack of agreement on the fundamental question: what is homelessness? In Multiple Barriers, Alison Smith explores the forces that shape intergovernmental and multilevel governance dynamics to help better understand why, despite the best efforts of community and advocacy groups, homelessness remains as persistent as ever. Drawing on nearly 100 interviews with key actors in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal, as well as extensive participant observation, Smith argues that institutional differences across cities interact with ideas regarding homelessness to contribute to very different models of governance. Multiple Barriers shows that the genuine involvement of locally based service providers, with the development of policy, are necessary for an effective, equitable, and enduring solution to the homelessness crisis in Canada.
Madness, Violence, and Power
Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence. Instead, this book seeks to broaden understandings of violence manifest in the lives of mental health service users/survivors, 'push' current considerations to explore the impacts of systems and institutions that manage 'abnormality', and to create and foster space to explore the role of our own communities in justice and accountability dialogues. This critical collection constitutes an integral contribution to critical scholarship on violence and mental illness by addressing a gap in the existing literature by broadening the "violence lens," and inviting an interdisciplinary conversation that is not narrowly biomedical and neuro-scientific.
Baseline Consumer Narratives of Lived Experience of the Mental Health Commission of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Project
"This report documents the findings of the baseline consumer narrative interviews of the At Home/Chez Soi initiative. It provides a summary of the emergent themes from each of the five sites, based on the individual site reports. These baseline consumer narratives will enable the research teams to analyze the nature and extent of change in comparison to the 18-month follow-up narratives. The overall objective of this report is to identify key themes regarding: (1) pathways into homelessness, (2) life on the streets and in a shelter, and (3) experiences of mental health issues and mental health services"--Page 4.
Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy, Second Edition
A consistent bestseller since its publication in 2000, Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy is a one-of-a-kind resource in the fields of political science and social work. Examining current conditions affecting the development of social policies in Canada, this book offers in-depth critical analysis of how these policies first arose and the implications they pose for future policy development. This new edition of Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy features updated chapters while retaining the first edition’s analytical focus on economic globalization, societal pluralization, and social protection. The authors offer fresh considerations of gender relations and families, community agencies and the voluntary sector, as well as the social policy activities of all levels of government in the Canadian federation. Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy will continue to provide the much-needed groundwork for students and policymakers, as well as propose real solutions for the future.
Follow-up Implementation and Fidelity Evaluation of the Mental Health Commission of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Project
"This report presents the overall findings from an implementation and fidelity evaluation of the At Home/Chez Soi initiative, a pan-Canadian Housing First demonstration project that was implemented in Moncton, Montréal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. The present study examined the second phase of implementation, using a mixed methods strategy. ... The present report synthesizes the fidelity reports and qualitative reports, and presents findings related to: (1) ongoing and emerging fidelity strengths and challenges; (2) stakeholder perceptions of what accounts for fidelity strengths and challenges; (3) lessons learned about the Housing First theory of change; (4) landlord/caretaker issues; and (5) issues regarding sustainability and the future of the project. Cross-cutting themes and lessons learned are also identified"--Page 5.
Hébergement, logement et rétablissement en santé mentale
Le logement constitue le point d'ancrage de l'individu dans la société. Ainsi, avoir une adresse constitue un des facteurs les plus importants pour l'intégration sociale. Le fait pour les personnes vivant avec des troubles mentaux de ne pas toujours accéder à cet idéal signe en quelque sorte leur marginalité. Quelles sont les solutions? Du Connecticut, d'Ontario et du Québec, des expériences réussies.
