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Establishing, funding and managing require a broad range of resources. A short catalog of resources in some of these areas is found below. In addition to these materials , the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse provides technical assistance in developing, running and evaluating consumer-driven service programs. Other resources may also be found at our website at http://www.mhselfhelp.org/techassist.php. To locate materials that are not directly linked from this page, search for your local public library online or in your community.
Click on a topic below to go to the appropriate technical assistance resource area or simply scroll down to view the entire list.
Draft Principles of Consumer-Driven Care from the Center for Mental Health Services.
"Consumer-Delivered Services as a Best Practice in Mental Health Care and the Development of Practice Guidelines." Salzer, M.S., & Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania Best Practices Team (2002). Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills, 6, 355-382.
"Self-Help Programs: Description of the Characteristics and Membership." Chamberlin, J.E., Rogers, S., Ellison, M.L. (1996) Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 19(3), 33-42.
Core Competencies of Service Providers: Views of Consumer Stakeholders. Campbell, J. (1998) Missouri Institute of Mental Health.
"Peer Support/Peer Provided Services Underlying Processes, Benefits, and Critical Ingredients." Solomon, P. (2004) Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 27(4), 392-401.
"History of the Consumer Movement." National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse.
Consumers as Providers in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Mowbray, C.T. et al (eds.) (1997). Columbia: MD. International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services. Find in a library or Purchase from USPRA
"Individual and Social Benefits of Mutual Aid Self-help groups." Humphreys, K. (1997). Social Policy, 27(3), 12-20.
"Ten Self-Help Principles." Riessman, F. (1997) Perspectives, 3(2).
"Consumer-Run Service Participation, Recovery of Social Functioning, and the Mediating Role of Psychological Factors." Yanos, P.T., Primavera, L.H., Knight, E. (2001). Psychiatric Services, 52(4), 493-500.
UIC National Research and Training Center webcast "Grading the Evidence for Consumer-Driven Servcices"
"Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General" This report endorses peer support and consumer advocacy.
"Consumer Self-Help" This section of the report is specifically on self-help and consumer advocacy.
References This section lists all the references for the studies cited by the Surgeon General.
The Consumer-Operated Services Program (COSP) Multisite Research Initiative is a federally-funded national effort to discover to what extent consumer-operated programs as an adjunct to traditional mental health services are effective in improving the outcomes of people with serious mental illness.
"Research Related to Self-Help Support Groups." The American Self-Help Clearinghouse: Self-Help Group Sourcebook Online.
A Review of Research on the Effectiveness of Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups." Kyrouz, E.M., Humphrey, K., Loomis, C. (2002) in White, B.J., Madara, E.J. (Eds.) American Self-Help Clearinghouse Self-Help Group Sourcebook. Chapter 5, 1-16.
"Peer Staff in Mental Health." National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy past president and 2005 Clifford Beers Award recipient Pat Risser's website.
Annotated Bibliography on Consumer-Operated Services. Sommers, D., Campbell, J., and Rittenhouse, T. (1999). Missouri Institute of Mental Health Program in Consumer Studies and Training: St. Louis, MO.
Self-Determination for People with Psychiatric Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography of Resources. UIC National Research & Training Center on Psychiatric Disability and the Self-Determination Knowledge Development Workgroup. (2002) Chicago, IL: published by the authors.
Mutual Help, an Important Gateway to Wellbeing and Mental Health. Finn, L., Bishop, B. (2001) New Paradigm: Australian Journal on Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 13-17. This paper gives information about and citations for a series of peer support/mutual aid studies conducted by Julian Rappaport and colleagues.
Determinants of Client Outcomes in Self-Help Agencies. Segal, S.P., Siverman, C. ( 2002) Psychiatric Services, 53(3), 304-309.
Raising Money for a Self-Help/Advocacy Group. National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse.
Consumer-Run Businesses and Services. National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse.
The Evaluation Center at the Human Services Research Institute has many resources on evaluation of programs, and in-depth tools for finding and promoting your outcomes.
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