title: Community control or control of the community? The case of the community mental health center.
abstract: This paper analyzes the powerful professional and social forces arrayed against community control. True community control is seen to be in danger of being compromised and co-opted by the mental health establishment. A radical and untried proposition, the implementation of community control, awaits broader institutional and political reform.
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006075:Governing Board; D014481:United States