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Empowerment Scale

The Empowerment Scale, developed by Elaine Salisbury Rogers and colleagues in 1997, is a 28-item self-report instrument assessing personal empowerment in individuals with serious mental illness. Empowerment reflects the individual's sense of agency, self-efficacy, and power to make meaningful life choices and participate in community. The scale captures three dimensions: self-efficacy/self-esteem, power/powerlessness, and community activism and autonomy. The Empowerment Scale is widely used in recovery-oriented mental health services to assess and monitor personal agency and control.

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Empowerment Scale (Rogers)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / psychiatric-rehabilitation
  • Rogers, E. S., Chamberlin, J., Ellison, M. L., & Crean, T. (1997). A consumer-constructed scale to measure empowerment among users of mental health services. Psychiatric Services, 48(8), 1042-1047. · DOI 10.1176/ps.48.8.1042
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Taxonomic bucketRecovery Assessment Scalemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRecovery-Oriented Practices Indexmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSocial Inclusion Scalemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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