Advocating Self-Advocacy: Board Membership in a Statewide Mental Health Consumer Organization

作者:Tanenbaum Sandra J*
来源:Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2014, 39(4): 919-927.
DOI:10.1215/03616878-2744423

摘要

Until 2008 Ohio Advocates for Mental Health was a statewide mental health advocacy organization run by mental health consumers and supportive of consumer-run organizations around the state. The author's tenure on the board entailed repeated engagement with questions of identity self-identity, peer support through personal identification, and negotiation of public identities with provider groups and the state agency. These are fundamental to defining and legitimating the claims of mentally ill people not just for health care resources but for full participation as citizens in the public sphere.

  • 出版日期2014-8

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