ISBN:
9780866562836
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (249 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Studies in Empowerment : Steps Toward Understanding and Action
DDC:
303.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This adaptable book offers diverse applications of the empowerment model to the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental illness. Topics span the developmental trends of empowerment as an individual achievement, a community experience, and a professional aim in relation to social intervention strategies and tactics
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword: Empowerment: An Antidote for Folly; Studies in Empowerment: Introduction to the Issue; Citizen Empowerment: A Developmental Perspective; Background; Method; On Powerlessness; Empowerment as a Developmental Process; Implications for Practice; Reflections on the Meaning of Empowerment; Empowerment in a Religious Setting: A Multivariate Investigation; Research Strategy; Method: Participant Observation, Peer and Self-Report; Results: Commitment, Crisis and Community; Discussion: Individual and Setting Variables
Description / Table of Contents:
The Fort McDowell Yavapai: From Pawns to PowerbrokersFort McDowell and the Central Arizona Project (CAP); Preliminary Negotiations; Changes in the Power Relationship; Central Arizona Water Control Study (CAWCS); Psychological Impacts of the Threat of Relocation; Empowerment; Effects of Empowerment; Lessons to Be Learned; Vehicles for Empowerment: The Case of Feminist Movement Organizations; Potential Explanatory Factors; Strategies for Coping with Conflict; Help Seeking and Receiving in Urban Ethnic Neighborhoods: Strategies for Empowerment
Description / Table of Contents:
Critical Service Delivery Issues in White Ethnic CommunitiesThe Neighborhood and Family Services Project-An Overview; Intervention Strategies; The Outcomes of Empowerment; Conclusion; Creating and Using Social Technologies for Community Empowerment; Examples of Empowerment Technologies; Ethical Analysis of the Empowerment Strategy; Discussion; The Illusion of Empowerment: Community Development within a Colonial Context; Empowerment; Proyecto Esfuerzo: An Intervention within Research Guiding Values and Theoretical Framework; History of Proyecto Esfuerzo; Empowerment Strategies
Description / Table of Contents:
Preliminary EvaluationMajor Unresolved Issues; Conclusions: The Illusion of Empowerment; Empowerment and Synergy: Expanding the Community's Healing Resources; The Concept of Empowerment: Toward a Synergistic Paradigm; The Hunting-Gathering !Kung: An Ancient Human Community; Fijian Healing: The Challenge of Specialization of Function; The United States: How Can Synergy Survive?; Encouraging Empowerment and Synergy; Thoughts on Empowerment
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
