Everyday ethics : voices from the front line of community psychiatry /

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Author / Creator:	Brodwin, Paul.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013] ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Community mental health services. Community psychiatry -- Ethics. Community Mental Health Services. Community Psychiatry -- ethics. Community mental health services.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168773

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ISBN:	0520274792 9780520274792 9781283919203 1283919206 9780520954526 0520954521 0520954513 9780520274785 0520274784 9780520954519
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community psychiatry outreach team, Brodwin traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. On the street, in staff room debates, or in private confessions, these psychiatrists and social workers confront ongoing challenges to their self-image as competent and compassionate advocates. At times they openly question the coercion and forced-dependency built into the current system of care. At other ti.
Other form:	Print version: 9780520274792
Standard no.:	ebc1092957

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