Former Mental Patients as Mental Health Workers: An Idea Whose Time Has Come.

Long, Lorence A.

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ERIC Number: EJ366465

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1979

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Former Mental Patients as Mental Health Workers: An Idea Whose Time Has Come.

Long, Lorence A.

Community Review, v3 n1 p12-16 Spr 1979

Advocates employing former mental patients to staff mental health centers. Reveals evidence that patients can help each other. Reviews the special contributions that former patients can make (e.g., offering a consumer point of view, making appropriate demands, and being a role model). Identifies problems that may be expected. (DMM)

Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Mental Health Programs, Patients, Psychiatric Aides, Psychological Services, Self Help Programs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Available from Community Review, Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.