Title

Ethics in Community Mental Health Care: Beneficence vs. Obligation: Challenges of the Americans with Disabilities Act for Consumer Employment in Mental Health Services

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2002

Publication Title

Community Mental Health Journal

Abstract

Involvement of mental health service consumers in the provision of mental health services is a growing model in community mental health. It is, however, a complicated issue, made ever more so by the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In this ethnographic case study, we seek to explore the changes one social services agency has made to adjust to the requirements of the ADA and the impact of these changes on their consumer employees. Our results indicate potential for positive progress as a result of the ADA, but also unexpected pitfalls as organizational cultures change as well.

Original Citation

Linda Francis, Paul Colson and Pamela Mizzi. (2002). Ethics in Community Mental Health Care: Beneficence vs. Obligation: Challenges of the Americans with Disabilities Act for Consumer Employment in Mental Health Services. Community Mental Health Journal, 38(2), 95-110.

Volume

38

Issue

2

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