Everyday Ethics : Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry /

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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 stre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brodwin, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Community mental health services.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Infants & Toddlers.
Psychiatrie communautaire > Morale.
Services communautaires de sante mentale.
Community Psychiatry > ethics
Community Mental Health Services
Community psychiatry > Ethics.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 ti.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9780520954526

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