Everyday Ethics Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry

Name: Everyday Ethics Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry
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ISBN: 9780520274792

ISBN-10: 0520274792

ISBN-13: 9780520274792

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul Brodwin

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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 times they justify their use of extreme power in the face of loud opposition from clients. This…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Terrain of Everyday Ethics



Background to Practice



Genealogy of the Treatment Model



Expert knowledge and Encounters with Futility



Tools of the Trade



Treatment Plans


Mandatory Narratives of Progress



Representative Payeeships


The Deep Logic of Dependency



Commitment Orders


The Practice of Consent and Constraint



From Everyday to Formal Ethics



Coercion, Confidentiality, and the Moral Contours of Work


Bibliography


Index