Consumers as Providers in Psychiatric Rehabilitation

activities advocacy advocate agency assertive community treatment assistance benefits challenges chapters clients clinical club clubhouse community mental health consumer role consumer service provision consumer staff consumer-provider consumerism consumers as providers director drop-in center employees employment empowerment evaluation ex-patients experience feel funding goals hospital identify important individuals initiative issues Karen leadership learned meetings ment Mental Health Association mental health center mental health consumers mental health professionals mental health services mental health system nonconsumer offer opportunities organization organizational outcomes participation patients peer counselors peer providers peer support specialists perspective planning positions problems profes Project Return prosumers psychiatric disabilities psychiatric hospital psychiatric rehabilitation psychiatrist Psychosocial Rehabilitation recipients recovery relationships responsibility role innovation schizophrenia Sciacca self-help groups serious mental illness share Shining Reflections skills social staff members stigma success sumers supervisors support group symptoms tion treatment