Tie A Knot and Hang On

Providing Mental Health Care in a Turbulent Environment

AvTeresa L. Scheid

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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The author provides a description and a sociological analysis of mental health care work, emphasizing the interaction of professionally generated norms that guide the emotional labor of mental health care workers, and the organizational contexts within which mental health care is provided. She concludes with a discussion of emerging institutional forces that will shape the mental health care system in the future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-04-26
Vikt:285 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social Institutions and Social Change
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:9780202307596

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi och antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Psykisk hälsovård inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Teresa Scheid Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Innehållsförteckning

1 A Sociological Analysis of Mental Health Care Work 2 Reluctant Managers: The Treatment of Mental Illness 3 Ideologies of Care: Parent, Caretaker, Advocate, Best Friend 4 Rationed Mental Health Care: Changing Provider Roles 5 The Padded Cell: Bureaucracy and Control over Provider's Work 6 Exhausted Providers: Emotional Labor and Burnout 7 The Commodification of Care 8 Shifting Institutional Contexts in Mental Health 9 Market-Based Care? Prospects for the Future