Ian Cummins
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447335597
- eISBN:
- 9781447335641
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447335597.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
The chapter contains an outline of mental health policy and legislation including the role of the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). Trends in the use of the MHA are examined. Bourdieu’s ...
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The chapter contains an outline of mental health policy and legislation including the role of the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). Trends in the use of the MHA are examined. Bourdieu’s notions of habitus and the field are used as a conceptual lens. The chapter argues that mental health social work, in common, with other areas of practice has become dominated by risk and risk management. This has occurred at the expense of relationship-based approaches.Less
The chapter contains an outline of mental health policy and legislation including the role of the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). Trends in the use of the MHA are examined. Bourdieu’s notions of habitus and the field are used as a conceptual lens. The chapter argues that mental health social work, in common, with other areas of practice has become dominated by risk and risk management. This has occurred at the expense of relationship-based approaches.
Ian Cummins
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447335597
- eISBN:
- 9781447335641
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447335597.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
The final chapter summarises the key themes of the book. It outlines the narratives that have underpinned reforms of mental health legislation examining moves towards a rights-based approach. The ...
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The final chapter summarises the key themes of the book. It outlines the narratives that have underpinned reforms of mental health legislation examining moves towards a rights-based approach. The chapter explores the impact of austerity policies on mental health services and services users. The chapter concludes with a call for new community based approaches and a rejection of risk and bureaucratic managerialism.Less
The final chapter summarises the key themes of the book. It outlines the narratives that have underpinned reforms of mental health legislation examining moves towards a rights-based approach. The chapter explores the impact of austerity policies on mental health services and services users. The chapter concludes with a call for new community based approaches and a rejection of risk and bureaucratic managerialism.
Banks Sarah
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861343567
- eISBN:
- 9781447302766
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861343567.003.0007
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
All managers face difficult choices — relating, for example, to conflicts of interest between various stakeholders; political imperatives; resource allocation or staff management decisions. This ...
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All managers face difficult choices — relating, for example, to conflicts of interest between various stakeholders; political imperatives; resource allocation or staff management decisions. This chapter explores some of the ethical conflicts and dilemmas that arise for managers of community practice. It uses two case studies relating to regeneration and mental health work to illustrate how managers conceptualise and handle ethical dilemmas and demonstrates how their practice embodies certain core values or principles.Less
All managers face difficult choices — relating, for example, to conflicts of interest between various stakeholders; political imperatives; resource allocation or staff management decisions. This chapter explores some of the ethical conflicts and dilemmas that arise for managers of community practice. It uses two case studies relating to regeneration and mental health work to illustrate how managers conceptualise and handle ethical dilemmas and demonstrates how their practice embodies certain core values or principles.
David Greenberg and Eliezer Witztum
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300071917
- eISBN:
- 9780300131994
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300071917.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by their dress, behaviors, and beliefs. Their relationship with secular society is ...
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Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by their dress, behaviors, and beliefs. Their relationship with secular society is characterized by social, religious, and political tensions. The differences between the ultra-orthodox and secular often pose special difficulties for psychiatrists who attempt to deal with their needs. In this book, two Western-trained psychiatrists discuss their mental health work with this community over the past two decades. With humor and affection they elaborate on some of the factors that make it difficult to treat or even to diagnose the ultra-orthodox, present case studies, and relate their observations of this religious community to the management of mental health services for other fundamentalist, anti-secular groups.Less
Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by their dress, behaviors, and beliefs. Their relationship with secular society is characterized by social, religious, and political tensions. The differences between the ultra-orthodox and secular often pose special difficulties for psychiatrists who attempt to deal with their needs. In this book, two Western-trained psychiatrists discuss their mental health work with this community over the past two decades. With humor and affection they elaborate on some of the factors that make it difficult to treat or even to diagnose the ultra-orthodox, present case studies, and relate their observations of this religious community to the management of mental health services for other fundamentalist, anti-secular groups.
