Meds, money, and manners the case management of severe mental illness

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 clie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Floersch, Jerry (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press c2002.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798499806719
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Summary: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 workers as agents of state power and social control.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (281 p.)
Issued also in print
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and index.
ISBN:9780231504812