Student Material to Victim Empowerment: Bridging the Systems Mental Health and Victim Service Providers

摘要

The resource manual contains a collection of articles and information written from either a mental health or a victim services perspective. Because these perspectives are not always in agreement, there may be conflicting points of view which participants can use as discussion starters. Individuals with diverse backgrounds, expertise and experience in victim services and mental health served as an advisory panel and assisted the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape with the development of this curriculum. The panel members of Victim Empowerment: Bridging the Systems - Mental Health and Victim Services Providers saw the project as essential and vital to the provision of quality support services and treatment for victims of crime and their significant others. They also saw this project as an opportunity to develop a collaborative systems approach to victim services between mental health and victim services providers.