Emerick R E
Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University, California 92182.
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1990 Apr;41(4):401-7. doi: 10.1176/ps.41.4.401.
Data from a national survey of 104 self-help groups for former mental patients were examined to assess actual and potential partnerships between these groups and mental health professionals. The groups' level of interaction with and attitudes toward professionals varied with the structure, affiliation, and service model of the groups. The majority were moderate "supportive" groups in which partnerships with professionals could occur but were problematic. Less common were radical "separatist" groups, with which professional partnerships were almost guaranteed to fail, and conservative "partnership" groups, with which partnerships were likely to succeed. Strong antipsychiatric attitudes throughout the mental patient movement suggest that mental health professionals who approach former-patient groups with narrow clinical conceptions of mental illness are likely to fail in establishing partnerships.
对一项针对104个前精神病患者自助团体的全国性调查数据进行了研究，以评估这些团体与心理健康专业人员之间实际的和潜在的合作关系。这些团体与专业人员的互动程度和态度因团体的结构、所属关系和服务模式而异。大多数是适度的“支持性”团体，在这些团体中与专业人员的合作有可能发生，但存在问题。较不常见的是激进的“分离主义”团体，与这类团体的专业合作几乎肯定会失败，还有保守的“合作”团体，与这类团体的合作有可能成功。整个精神病患者运动中强烈的反精神病态度表明，那些带着对精神疾病狭隘临床观念接触前患者团体的心理健康专业人员很可能在建立合作关系方面失败。
