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A Response to the Criticisms of Transitional Employment

This paper is based on a Plenary Address delivered at the Sixth International Seminar on the Clubhouse Model, Greenville, South Carolina, 1991.
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A Comparison of Competitive Employment Outcomes for the Clubhouse and PACT Models

This study determined whether the clubhouse model of community support and psychiatric rehabilitation can produce competitive employment outcomes that are comparable or superior to those of the Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) model.
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An Experimental Comparison of PACT and Clubhouse (Final Report)

The Massachusetts EIDP is an experimental comparison of (1) the vocationally integrated Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) that originated in Madison, Wisconsin and (2) the ‘clubhouse’ model of psychiatric rehabilitation...
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Organizing for Clubhouses: The Massachusetts Success Story

This paper will show that programs utilizing the Clubhouse Model can be replicated. The benefit of replication is quality programs, which consumers of services and their families can count on while opening the door to a wide array of job and social opportunities...
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From Pedestal to Personhood

In many traditional clinical settings there are often certain beliefs regarding the staff. These beliefs distinguish staff from consumers and are identified as the elements that make up the "professional pedestal".
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How Work Works

I am going to talk today about how work works in the clubhouse model. In many traditional day treatment models of rehabilitation, work is ignored as a rehabilitation tool, either because it does not occur to the staff that there is any merit in work, or ...
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