Taking Over the Asylum: Empowerment and Mental Health

by Marian Barnes, Ric Bowl, Marian Barnes

One of the most critical developments within 'welfare' in recent years, has been the transformation of service users from 'passive recipients' to 'active subjects' of welfare policy and practice. People who use services have challenged paternalistic notions that professionals are always the experts, and have offered alternative analyses both of the experience of living with disability or illness, and of policy and practice responses to such experiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333740912
• ISBN13: 9780333740910
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"