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Care and culture : care relations from the perspectives of mental health caregivers in ethnic minority families /
Informal care provided by family members is central to current health and social care policy. Caregiving can be seen as a point where macro- and micro-level processes meet: it simultaneously concerns the organization of welfare states and the everyday lives of the millions of people giving and recei...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Informal caregiving: the policy and research context
- Collecting personal experiences
- Organization of the book
- 1. Caregiving as part of personal life: connectedness, culture and reciprocity
- Care, kin and connectedness
- Culture and family care
- Reciprocity, recognition and relational models
- 2. Kin and care: carers' descriptions of the "good carer"
- The carer role: expressions of relatedness
- Caregiving tasks and family connectedness
- 3. Lives changed: the burden of caregiving from carers' point of view
- Effects of the caregiving experience
- Support from the social environment
- Considerations of adjustments to care situations
- 4. Listen to us: caregivers' relations to professionals
- Experiences of racism as a barrier to carer involvement
- Models of carer participation in clinical decision making
- Flexible use of the models of care relations
- 5. Disputed reciprocation: carer's views on commodification and recognition
- Provision of carer support in public policy
- Experiences of recognition of carers
- Defining and addressing carers' needs
- 6. Care and culture: towards a sociological understanding of care relations from carers' point of view
- A new model of care relations
- Implications for the study of informal care.