Title
Personal Assistance in Community Existence (PACE): An Alternative to PACT
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Psychiatry
Publication Date
2000
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Mental Health; Rehabilitation; Self-Help Groups
Disciplines
Health Services Research | Mental and Social Health | Psychiatric and Mental Health | Psychiatry and Psychology
Abstract
Personal Assistance in Community Existence (PACE) is the National Empowerment Center's new approach to assisting people to fully recover from mental illness at their own pace. PACE is based on the principles of the empowerment model of recovery: self-determination, being believed in, a belief in full recovery, trust, respect, and noncoercion. PACE is proposed as an alternative to PACT (Program in Assertive Community Treatment) whose emphasis on the medical model of coercion and lifetime illness interferes with recovery and prevents most consumer/survivors from seeking services.
Source
Fisher, D., and L. Ahern. 2000. Personal assistance in community existence (PACE): An alternative to PACT. Ethical Human Sciences and Services 2(2): 87–92.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Ethical Human Sciences and Services
Repository Citation
Fisher, Daniel B. and Ahern, Laurie, "Personal Assistance in Community Existence (PACE): An Alternative to PACT" (2000). Systems and Psychosocial Advances Research Center Publications and Presentations. 576.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_cmhsr/576
Comments
At the time of publication, Daniel Fisher was not yet affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School.