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Innovating in Community Mental Health presents lively examples of
successful attempts to change mental health service systems in
innovative ways to achieve the goal of providing care for persons
with severe mental illness. These examples are drawn from such
diverse national settings as Italy, Russia, Germany, England,
China, and the United States, and involve a range of stratgies from
treatment teams of professionals, grassroots community
organizations, consumer cooperatives, professional-volunteer
teamwork, and housing-based alternatives. The stories of these
varied innovations are told by established, knowledgeable scholars
from each of the featured countries. The editors help us understand
the triumphs and pitfalls involved in these innovations through the
presentation of a broad, research-based theory of innovation and
change, which is used to guide the presentation of the examples and
subsequently to determine their similarities and differences.
Through the theoretical framework presented, the nuances of the
process of innovation are highlighted, including the importance of
the type of innovation itself, the wider environmental influences,
place of internal organizational structures, and the role of the
individual change agent. Through this framework and the examples
presented, the reader is given indications of how innovation and
change may be possible in such diverse and seemingly difficult
situations, and also of how effective strategies for change might
be chosen by administrators, providers, and other policymakers.
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