Author: Claire ChaumePublisher: [Montréal] : Regroupement des ressources alternatives en santé mentale du Québec
ISBN:
Category : Community mental health services
Languages : fr
Pages : 142
Book Description
Les pratiques alternatives en santé mentale au Québec : un portrait de notre différence
Author: Claire ChaumePublisher: [Montréal] : Regroupement des ressources alternatives en santé mentale du Québec
ISBN:
Category : Community mental health services
Languages : fr
Pages : 142
Book Description
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Quelques fenêtres percent le mur
Author: Regroupement des ressources alternatives en santé mentale du QuébecPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 59
Book Description
International Journal of Mental Health
Author: Self-help and Mental Health
Author: Nérée St-AmandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This document provides readers with a conceptual and historical overview of self-help. It presents a general analytical framework and familiarizes readers with the principal writers, researchers, and thinkers in the field. The remainder of the document concentrates on the life stories people agreed to share. It breaks the accounts down into three segments: primary network relationships, relations with the professional help network, and relations with the mutual aid network. It summarizes the knowledge gleaned from the analysis of the accounts presented, particularly as it relates to profession training in social work.
Community Organizing
Author: Brian WharfPublisher: Oxford University Press Canada
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This collection is the first attempt to trace four decades of community organizing in Canada. The contributors seek to determine lasting legacies and extract lessons from the many varied experiences
The Self-help Way
Author: Jean-Marie RomederPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Self-care, Health
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This publication offers a summary of current knowledge in the field of self-help/mutual aid. It proposes a new definition of self-help groups, outlines a theory of motivation for mutual aid that gives readers a better understanding of the forces and dynamics at work in the mutual aid practised in self-help groups. It proposes a model for personal health, examines the sources of reluctance many people have to self-help groups and the way one can overcome them. It also contains an overview of numerous studies on self-help groups, and of the activities that have lent support to the self-help movement. Finally, it presents the similarities and differences between the activities of members of self-help groups and those of professionals.
Child Welfare in Canada
Author: Joe HudsonPublisher: Thompson Educational Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Child welfare systems are being strained and stretched under the major social and economic changes taking place here and around the globe. Decision makers are struggling to develop policies and programs that better meet the needs of children and families while budgets are shrinking and deficits loom. Research based, policy-relevant information is crucial as they strive to make the decision. Child Welfare in Canada is a thorough summation of the current state of research on the broad area of child welfare in Canada. The text consists of 31 chapters, supplemented with over 50 statistical tables and graphs. The text concludes with a comprehensive agenda for the entire field of Canadian child welfare research. The themes of empowering and strengthening families, communities and social support networks, and providing family and cultural continuity for children are stressed throughout.
Measuring Mental Disorders
Author: Philippe Le MoignePublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128172525
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book is a collective work draws on the perspective of social sciences, mobilizing perspectives from the sociology of science, the history of psychiatry, medical ethnography and public policy analysis. This initiative, which has no precedent in social sciences, is surrounded by an original, if not apparently paradoxical statement: considering that the deployment of these processes, strictly formal and depersonalized, is justified in becoming the rule in a society known as "individuals". - Presents the measurement of mental disorders (tests / scales) across the various sectors - Determines the underpinning of this measure and its performance - Explains the rise of these tests and its success - Understands its impact on users
Building the Future, a Time for Reconciliation
Author: Gérard BouchardPublisher:
ISBN: 9782550527558
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
This report was inspired by a search for balance and fairness, in a spirit of compromise. It includes the mandate of the Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences. The report reflects Québec's sociocultural development in recent years, elaborates recommendations in respect of Québec overall, emphasizes citizen action, takes into account Québecers' societal choices, pays close attention to Québecers' suggestions and proposals, allows for the public expression of differences, and emphasizes integration in a spirit of equality and reciprocity.