Community control or control of the community? The case of the community mental health center.
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.
D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006075:Governing Board; D014481:United States