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Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness
Jerry Floersch
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Paperback. This work shows how and why case management and community support replaced psychiatry and mental hospitals. It examines everyday written and oral narratives to prove that the common critique of social workers - that they are state agents controlling clients - is untrue. Num Pages: 286 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JKSN; MBPK; MMH; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382.
As case management has replaced institutional care for mental health patients in recent decades, case management theory has grown in complexity and variety of models. But how are these models translated into real experience? How do caseworkers use both textbook and practical knowledge to assist clients with managing their medication and their money? Using ethnographic and historical-sociological methods, Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness uncovers unexpected differences between written and oral accounts of case management in practice. In the process, it suggests the possibility of small acts of resistance and challenges the myth of social ... Read more
As case management has replaced institutional care for mental health patients in recent decades, case management theory has grown in complexity and variety of models. But how are these models translated into real experience? How do caseworkers use both textbook and practical knowledge to assist clients with managing their medication and their money? Using ethnographic and historical-sociological methods, Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness uncovers unexpected differences between written and oral accounts of case management in practice. In the process, it suggests the possibility of small acts of resistance and challenges the myth of social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231122733
SKU
V9780231122733
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99-1
About Jerry Floersch
Jerry E. Floersch is an assistant professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.
Reviews for Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness
This book provides a fascinating albeit bleak insight into the daily routine of practitioners.
Camilla Parker European Journal of Public Health
Camilla Parker European Journal of Public Health