Meds, Money, and Manners The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness

Name: Meds, Money, and Manners The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness
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ISBN: 9780231122733

ISBN-10: 023112273X

ISBN-13: 9780231122733

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jerry Floersch, Jerry E. Floersch

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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…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/6/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.946



Tables


Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Formation of Community Support Services



The Rise of the Case Manager



Strengths Case Management



Landscape for a Case Manager: The Carless Mentally Ill



Oral and Written Narratives of Case Managers



Money



Meds



The Helper Habitus: Situated Knowledge and Case Management



Conclusion



Methods, Data, and Analysis: A Critical-Realist Perspective



Continuum of Services



Interview Schedule


Notes


References


Index