1. Voting as Empowerment Practice.
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Davis, JenniferK.
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PRACTICAL politics -- Law & legislation , *PRACTICAL politics , *CITIZENSHIP , *CIVIL rights , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *DECISION making , *GUARDIAN & ward , *MENTAL illness , *REHABILITATION of people with mental illness , *POLITICAL participation , *PSYCHOTHERAPY patients , *PUBLIC administration , *SELF-efficacy , *SOCIAL services , *SOCIAL stigma , *VOLUNTEERS , *VOTING , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *INDEPENDENT living - Abstract
This article seeks to explore the appropriate use of empowerment-based social work practice to increase the voter participation of those with psychiatric disabilities. Empowerment-based practice has become standard in community mental health care but has not included voting as an area of focus. The Civic Volunteerism Model is utilized to provide a theoretical framework for the natural integration of voter participation into empowerment-based practice. Barriers and their remedies to voter participation as a component of empowerment-based practice are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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