Table Of ContentCommunity Psychology and
Community Mental Health
Advances in Community Psychology Series
Te Book Series of the Society for Community Research and Action
Series Editors
Nicole E. Allen
Bradley Olson
Advisory Board
Mona M. Amer
G. Anne Bogat
Meg Bond
M. Brinton Lykes
Ana Mari Cauce
Gary W. Harper
Niki Harré
James G. Kelly
Bret Kloos
Kenneth I. Maton
Roger Mitchell
Maritza Montero
Isaac Prilleltensky
Julian Rappaport
Irma Serrano-Garcia
Marybeth Shinn
Christopher Sonn
Cris Sullivan
Jacob K. Tebes
Roderick J. Wats
Tom Wolf
Books in the Series
Principles of Social Change
Leonard A. Jason
Community Psychology and Community Mental Health: Towards
Transformative Change
Edited by Geofrey Nelson, Bret Kloos, and José Ornelas
Forthcoming Books in the Series
Infuencing Social Policy: Applied Psychology Serving the Public Interest
Kenneth I. Maton
Community Psychology
and Community
Mental Health
Towards Transformative Change
E D I T E D B Y
G E O F F R E Y N E L S O N ,
B R E T K L O O S ,
and
J O S É O R N E L A S
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Community psychology and community mental health : towards transformative change/edited by Geofrey
Nelson, Bret Kloos, and Jose Ornelas.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–936242–4 (paperback : acid-free paper) 1. Community mental health
services. 2. Community psychology. [1. Change (Psychology)] I. Nelson, Geofrey
B. (Geofrey Brian) II. Kloos, Bret. III. Ornelas, Jose.
R790.5.C636 2015
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C O N T E N T S
Series Foreword by Nicole E. Allen and Bradley Olson ix
Foreword by Julian Rappaport xi
Acknowledgments xiii
About the Editors xv
About the Authors xvii
PA RT O N E OV E RV I E W O F CO M M U N I T Y
P S YCH O LO G Y, CO MM UNIT Y M E N TA L HE ALTH,
AND T R ANSFOR M AT IV E CH AN GE
1. Transformative Change in Community Mental Health: A Community
Psychology Framework 3
g e o f f r e y n e l s o n , b r e t k l o o s , a n d j o s é o r n e l a s
PA RT T WO T H EO R ET I C A L P E R SP ECT I V E S
O N T R A NSFO R M ATIVE CH A N GE
2. Community Psychology History and Teory as Resources for
Transformative Change in Community Mental Health 23
b r e t k l o o s , j o s é o r n e l a s , a n d g e o f f r e y n e l s o n
3. Perspectives on Transformative Change in Community Mental Health 51
j o h n s y lv e s t r e
4. Te Capabilities Approach to Transformative Change in Mental Health 75
m a r y b e t h s h i n n
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vi C o n t e n t s
PART THREE TR ANSFOR M ATIVE CH AN GE
AND CONSUM ER PART ICIPAT ION
5. Transforming Mental Health Care Trough the Participation
of the Recovery Community 89
l a r r y d av i d s o n , p r i s c i l l a r i d g way, m a r i a o’c o n n e l l ,
a n d t h o m a s a . k i r k , j r .
6. Te Impact of Mental Health Consumer-Run Organizations
on Transformative Change 108
l o u i s d . b r o w n a n d s u s a n r o g e r s
PA RT FO U R T R A NSFO R M AT I V E CH A N G E I N SE RV ICE S
AND PR ACTICE S
7. Wellness Recovery Action Planning: Te Role of Wellness Promotion
in a New Paradigm of Community Mental Health 133
m a r y e l l e n c o p e l a n d a n d j e s s i c a a . j o n i k a s
8. Defning the Competencies of Diferent Stakeholders in
a Transformed Mental Health System 152
t i m a u b r y a n d m a r y o’h a g a n
9. Planning Transformative Change for Mental Health Services
for Diverse Cultural-Linguistic Communities 177
g e o f f r e y n e l s o n , h s i a o d’a i l l y, j o a n n a o c h o c k a , r i c h j a n z e n ,
s a r a h m a i t e r , a n d n o r a j a c o b s o n
PA RT F I V E T R A NSFO R M AT I V E CO M M U N I T Y CH A N GE
10. Recovering Community in Mental Health: Te Contributions
and Challenges of Community Psychology 205
b r e t k l o o s , g r e g t o w n l e y, v i c t o r i a h . c h i e n , b e t s y a . d av i s ,
l a u r a k u r z b a n , a n d d av i d a s i a m a h
11. Who Is John?: Community Integration as a Paradigm for
Transformative Change in Community Mental Health 228
m a r k s . s a l z e r a n d r i c h a r d c . b a r o n
C onte nt s vii
PA RT SI X T R A NSFO R M AT I V E CH A N G E
O F SO CI A L CON DIT I ONS
12. Transformative Organizational Change in Community Mental Health 253
j o s é o r n e l a s , t e r e s a d u a r t e , a n d m a r i a f át i m a j o r g e - m o n t e i r o
13. Housing First and System/Community Transformation 278
pa u l a g o e r i n g a n d s a m t s e m b e r i s
14. Supported Education as a Vehicle for Transformational Change
in Mental Health Treatment Philosophy 292
k a r e n v. u n g e r
PA RT SE V E N T R A NSFO R M AT I V E P O LI C Y CH A N G E
15. Beginning to Take Control: Ontario’s Consumer/Survivor
Development Initiative 309
j o h n t r a i n o r a n d d av i d r e v i l l e
16. Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Policies: Implications
for Transformative Change in Five Nations 327
m y r a p i at a n d l a u r e n p o lv e r e
PA RT E I G H T CO N CLUSI O N
17. Transforming Research for Transformative Change in Mental
Health: Toward the Future 351
n e v j o n e s , j ay h a r r i s o n , r i ta a g u i a r , a n d l a u r e n m u n r o
18. Transformative Change in Community Mental Health: Synthesis
and Future Directions 373
g e o f f r e y n e l s o n , b r e t k l o o s , a n d j o s é o r n e l a s
Index 389
S E R I E S F O R E W O R D
Te Society for Community Research and Action (SCR), Division 27 of the
American Psychological Association, is an international and interdisciplin-
ary organization that supports the development of theory, research, and social
action. Members share a common interest in promoting empowerment, health,
and well-being, with special atention to multiple levels of analysis—individual,
group, organizational, community, cultural, and societal. Division members focus
on an array of pressing social issues within national and global contexts (such as
violence, mental health, HIV/AIDS, poverty, racism) and have developed efective
social interventions to address seemingly intractable problems using a continuum
of approaches from prevention to intervention to social transformation. Tese
approaches involve diverse strategies, including advocacy, citizen participation, col-
laboration, community organizing, economic development, prevention, education,
self-help/mutual-help, sociopolitical development, social movements, and policy
change. Tese change strategies typically share the goal of challenging and alter-
ing underlying power structures in the pursuit of social justice and community and
individual well-being.
Tis book series, Advances in Community Psychology, is sponsored by SCR
to more broadly disseminate theory, research, and social action of community psy-
chologists and those in allied disciplines. Te overarching mission of the series is to
create a publication venue that (a) highlights the contributions of the felds of com-
munity psychology and, more generally, community action, research, and practice;
(b) integrates current knowledge on pressing topics in the feld; and (c) ofers the
foundations for future directions.
All three dimensions of the book series mission is advanced in the current vol-
ume, Community Psychology and Community Mental Health: Towards Transformative
Change, edited by Geofrey Nelson, Bret Kloos, and José Ornelas. Te feld of com-
munity psychology has a long history of addressing issues related to community
mental health. Tis volume’s editors have convened key thinkers and practitioners
who have long recognized that traditional mental health services are inadequate.
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