Tie a knot and hang on : providing mental health care in a turbulent environment /

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Author / Creator:Scheid, Teresa L.
Imprint:New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c2004.
Description:x, 198 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Social institutions and social change
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5198892
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ISBN:0202307581 (cloth : alk. paper)
020230759X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-189) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.