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Community Attitudes | 1 |
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Community Involvement | 1 |
Community Relations | 1 |
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American Psychologist | 1 |
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Hersch, Charles | 1 |
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Hersch, Charles – American Psychologist, 1972
The professional mental health community, which had romanticized the concept of community control, is presently becoming disenchanted with it due to the lack of facility and skills for working with it. The task is to understand and evaluate community control and to alter only those aspects found destructive to community well-being. (DM)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Relations