Meds, money, and manners : the case management of severe mental illness / Jerry Floersch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Floersch, Jerry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentally ill--Care.

Mentally ill.

Mentally ill--Rehabilitation.

Mental illness--Treatment.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 agents of state power and social control.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1. Introduction

CHAPTER 2. The Formation of Community Support Services

CHAPTER 3. The Rise of the Case Manager

CHAPTER 4. Strengths Case Management

CHAPTER 5. Landscape for a Case Manager: The Carless Mentally Ill

CHAPTER 6. Oral and Written Narratives of Case Managers

CHAPTER 7. Money

CHAPTER 8. Meds

CHAPTER 9. The Helper Habitus: Situated Knowledge and Case Management

CHAPTER 10. Conclusion

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

APPENDIX B. Continuum of Services

APPENDIX C. Interview Schedule

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and index.

ISBN:

9780231504812

0231504810

OCLC:

826476609