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The Origins Of Coercion In Assertive Community Treatment: A Review Of Early Publications From The Special Treatment Unit Of Mendota State Hospital., Tomi Gomory Jan 2002

The Origins Of Coercion In Assertive Community Treatment: A Review Of Early Publications From The Special Treatment Unit Of Mendota State Hospital., Tomi Gomory

Tomi Gomory

This article argues that Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is fundamentally and historically based on the uncritical but societally well accepted view that medically justified coercion (punishment or unwanted treatment) is therapeutic. It documents this claim by reviewing the early professional history and the resultant publications of the inventors of ACT (originally known as Training in Community Living), consisting of psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists who trained and worked during the 1960s through the 1980s, at Mendota State Hospital (eventually renamed Mendota Mental Health Institute) in Wisconsin.


Qualitative Evaluation Of The Survival Skills For Women Program, Lisa Mcguire Dec 2001

Qualitative Evaluation Of The Survival Skills For Women Program, Lisa Mcguire

Lisa E. McGuire

No abstract provided.


The Controllers And The Controlled - Interactions Of Staff And Clients In The Social Service And Criminal Justice Systems, Deborah Whitley, Paula Dressel Dec 2001

The Controllers And The Controlled - Interactions Of Staff And Clients In The Social Service And Criminal Justice Systems, Deborah Whitley, Paula Dressel

Deborah M. Whitley

No abstract provided.


Welfare-To-Work Transition With Public Housing Residents: Applications Of The Transtheoretical Model, Lisa Mcguire Dec 2001

Welfare-To-Work Transition With Public Housing Residents: Applications Of The Transtheoretical Model, Lisa Mcguire

Lisa E. McGuire

No abstract provided.


Trends In Author Characteristics And Diversity Issues In The Journal Of Marital And Family Therapy From 1990 To 2000, Julia Pryce Dec 2001

Trends In Author Characteristics And Diversity Issues In The Journal Of Marital And Family Therapy From 1990 To 2000, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

In this article, we present an analysis and comparison of published articles in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (JMFT)between 1990-1995 and 1996-2000. This studyfocused on trends in author gendel; highest degree, and professional afiliation, and article content on issues of cultural and family diversity (race/ethnicity, class, religiodspirituality, gendel; sexual orientation,and variedfamilyforms}. Keyfindings show a significant shifrfrom 69% malefirst authorsin1990-1995 toequalgenderrepresentationinauthorshipfor1996-2000 articles,with a particular increase infemale PhDs. Articles addressing diversity issues doubledfrom 15.6% of all 1990-1995 articles to 31% in 1996-2000. Of note, women authored 73% of the 1996-2000 articles on the wide range of diversity issues. Implicationsfor thefield …


What Do Family Mediators Do? A Look At Practices And Models, Sherrill W. Hayes Dec 2001

What Do Family Mediators Do? A Look At Practices And Models, Sherrill W. Hayes

Sherrill W. Hayes

No abstract provided.