Beyond Community Care

The second title in a new series, this text is a compilation of essays from specialists in different fields of mental health. They focus on psychiatric services, and in particular consider options which aim to normalize and integrate the recipient.

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An innovative, multi-perspective and international approach to the issues which normalisation entails. Carrying on from the concept of community care, normalisation or integration is about creating the conditions in the individual and society for leading as autonomous and acceptable a life as possible. Based on the right of people with disabilities to an ordinary life, it has extensive implications not just for professionals in the mental health field but for all of us.