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

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
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Terrain of Everyday Ethics
  • Part 1. Background to Practice
  • 1. Genealogy of the Treatment Model
  • 2. Expert knowledge and Encounters with Futility
  • Part 2. Tools of the Trade
  • 3. Treatment Plans
  • Mandatory Narratives of Progress
  • 4. Representative Payeeships
  • The Deep Logic of Dependency
  • 5. Commitment Orders
  • The Practice of Consent and Constraint
  • Part 3. From Everyday to Formal Ethics
  • 6. Coercion, Confidentiality, and the Moral Contours of Work
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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