Trusting on the edge : managing uncertainty and vulnerability in the midst of serious mental health problems / Patrick Brown and Michael Calnan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Patrick (Sociologist), author.

Calnan, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trust.

Mentally ill--Psychology.

Mentally ill.

Mental health facilities.

Physician and patient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 138 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores issues central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust, linking abstract concerns to empirical analysis with interviews with service-users, practitioners and managers.

Contents:

TRUSTING ON THE EDGE; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Risk and trust in late-modern society; Late-modernity and the illumination of uncertainties; Strategies of managing vulnerability in the face of uncertainty: risk and trust; Atmospheres of trust? Various forms of 'hyphenated' trust; Overview of the book; 1. Investigating trust: some theoretical and methodological underpinnings; Risk, vulnerability and uncertainty; Conceptualising trust; Defining trust: a problem of knowing; Relating trust in people to trust in systems; Researching trust: epistemology and methodology

Some central analytical foci2. Constructing knowledge through social interactions: the role of interpersonal trust in negotiating negative institutional conceptions; Three sources of negative institutional conceptions; Different formats and concreteness of knowledge; Trusting in mental health professionals: distinguishing the individual from the system; Conclusion; 3. Bridging uncertainty by constructing trust: the rationality of irrational approaches; Rationality as an obstacle to social analysis; Trust as necessary, appropriate and effective

Dispositions and forming knowledge of others: habitus and trustConclusion; 4. Vulnerability and the 'will to trust'; Dependence, choice and trust; Luhmannian insights: choice, regret and attribution; Choosing or not choosing? Recognising agency amidst structures; The messiness of real world trust: trust and mistrust alongside one another; Vulnerability and a 'will to trust'; Conclusion; 5. The difficulties of trust-work within a paradigm of risk; Professionals in the midst of vulnerability; Professionals, morality and the trust-control dialectic

The interrelatedness of trust across different organisational dimensionsVirtuous and vicious circles of trust; Origins of virtuous and vicious circles; A starting point for potential policy solutions; Conclusion; 6. Trusting on the edge:implications for policy; Overview of key themes; Policy implications: rediscovering trust; Paths for future research; Appendix; Methods; Design; Sampling and participants; Data collection; Method of analysis; References; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613558268

9781447307556

1447307550

9781280380358

1280380357

9781847428905

1847428908

OCLC:

793166561