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Destroying Sanctuary
Sandra L.; Fa Bloom
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Description for Destroying Sanctuary
Paperback. This groundbreaking work outlines a vision for transforming our mental health and social service systems by addressing the deeply rooted organizational trauma that has come to define the very systems that are charged with ensuring our nation's collective mental health and well being. Num Pages: 442 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKS; MBPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 700.
For the last thirty years, the nation's mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs and the fragmentation of service delivery rendering them incapable of ensuring the safety, security, and recovery of their clients. The resulting organizational trauma both mirrors and magnifies the trauma-related problems their clients seek relief from. Just as the lives of people exposed to chronic trauma and abuse become organized around the traumatic experience, so too have our social service systems become organized around the recurrent stress of trying to do more under greater pressure: they become crisis-oriented, authoritarian, ... Read more
For the last thirty years, the nation's mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs and the fragmentation of service delivery rendering them incapable of ensuring the safety, security, and recovery of their clients. The resulting organizational trauma both mirrors and magnifies the trauma-related problems their clients seek relief from. Just as the lives of people exposed to chronic trauma and abuse become organized around the traumatic experience, so too have our social service systems become organized around the recurrent stress of trying to do more under greater pressure: they become crisis-oriented, authoritarian, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
442
Condition
New
Number of Pages
442
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199977918
SKU
V9780199977918
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About Sandra L.; Fa Bloom
Sandra L. Bloom, MD, is Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, Drexel University.Brian Farragher, MBA, is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, The Andrus Children's Center.
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