title: A transactional perspective on the interrelationship of the societal power structure, the mental health establishment, the individual, and the community: a commentary on Nassi.
abstract: While agreeing in part with Nassi's (1978) radical position on the failure of community control to be meaningfully implemented by the mental health establishment, a complementary analysis is proposed as being more complete by virtue of integrating a variety of societal and individual perspectives. This analysis builds on transactional epistemology and a multi-level model of service delivery, also bringing to bear developmental and social evolutionary theory. A new service delivery role, the human development liaison specialist, is advanced as consistent with these notions.
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012927:Social Control, Informal