Much has occurred since the publication of the first edition of this classic textbook. Recovery
from psychiatric disabilities has become the new vision for mental health services. It has …

Presenting a compelling alternative to the traditional medical approach, The Strengths
Model demonstrates an evidence-based approach to helping people with a psychiatric …

Focuses on the strengths model of practice, which focuses on helping people, not as
patients or clients, but as individuals. Empirical testing of this model and its results have …

This paper identifies ten principles or active ingredients of case management that are
common to interventions that produced statistically significant positive outcomes for people …

A comprehensive review of published and unpublished research studies of case
management for severely mentally disabled adults was undertaken. This yielded 20 studies …

The strengths perspective in social work practice continues to develop conceptually. The
strengths-based approach to case management with people with severe mental illness is …

Strengths-based practice in social work has a strong theoretical foundation as an effective
helping strategy that builds on a person's successes. Although there is growing empirical …

The last decade has witnessed a burgeoning interest in case management services to
people with severe mental illness. While the literature on case management is proliferating …

Marna S. Barrett is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her main research interests are in the area of therapist …

The service systems which assist the long-term mentally ill to function in the community have
been routinely described as fragmented and uncoordinated. The development and …