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Fountain House: Creating Community in Mental Health Practice
Alan Doyle
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Description for Fountain House: Creating Community in Mental Health Practice
Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
Often people with mental illness feel alone in society, with no place to go and little hope. Their isolation can be further perpetuated through typical approaches to treatment, such as case management and psychotherapy. Since 1948, the Fountain House "working community" has worked to address the isolation and social stigmatization faced by people with mental illness. This volume describes in detail its evidence-based, cost-effective, and replicable model, which produces substantive outcomes in employment, schooling, housing, and general wellness. Through an emphasis on personal choice, professional and patient collaboration, and, most important, "the need to be needed," Fountain House demonstrates ... Read more
Often people with mental illness feel alone in society, with no place to go and little hope. Their isolation can be further perpetuated through typical approaches to treatment, such as case management and psychotherapy. Since 1948, the Fountain House "working community" has worked to address the isolation and social stigmatization faced by people with mental illness. This volume describes in detail its evidence-based, cost-effective, and replicable model, which produces substantive outcomes in employment, schooling, housing, and general wellness. Through an emphasis on personal choice, professional and patient collaboration, and, most important, "the need to be needed," Fountain House demonstrates ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
426g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231157100
SKU
V9780231157100
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Ref
99-15
About Alan Doyle
Alan Doyle is the director of the Fountain House Institute. He is a former assistant director for occupational education for a regional school system on Long Island, has served as the federal liaison for the Massachusetts State Education Commissioner, and attended Fordham University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Julius Lanoil is a psychotherapist and wellness consultant at ... Read more
Reviews for Fountain House: Creating Community in Mental Health Practice
The concept of a community-working and living together-as therapeutic milieu for those with mental illness is one that has stood the test of time. After falling out of fashion for a period with the demise of the state hospital system, therapeutic communities are now coming back, providing not only the medications and therapies crucial for treating mental illness but also ... Read more