Voting as Empowerment Practice.

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]