{"product_id":"managing-madness-in-the-community-the-challenge-of-contemporary-mental-health-care-paperback-softback-9780813563084","title":"Managing Madness in the Community; The Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health Care (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813563084","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eManaging Madness in the Community\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health Care\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKerry Michael Dobransky (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813563084\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 March 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 4 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Beyond being readable and engaging, this book is unique in its use of organizational theory to elucidate key features of the mental health system. The focus on institutional fragmentation is very original, and important from a policy perspective.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Teresa L. Scheid (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) \u003cdiv\u003e\"In this interesting new book, Dobransky carefully explores the often contradictory institutional logics of community-based psychiatric care and offers fresh insights on how these competing views shape our fragmented system of community mental healthcare.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Eric R. Wright (professor of sociology and public health, Georgia State University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Dobransky’s willingness to question the currently received wisdom about the value of currently popular service approaches and his use of a rich dataset both attest to the book’s potential.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Russell K. Schutt (University of Massachusetts Boston) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eManaging Madness in the Community\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely read, presenting severe persistent mental illness (SPMI) and the delivery of community mental health in clear, understandable terms. Recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Provides important insights into the mental health system in the United States.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (American Journal of Sociology) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Provides important insights into the challenges workers and clients face in the mental health care system. Sociologists and mental health care professionals, including policy makers, will find Dobransky's work of particular interest.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Oral History Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Beyond being readable and engaging, this book is unique in its use of organizational theory to elucidate key features of the mental health system. The focus on institutional fragmentation is very original, and important from a policy perspective.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Teresa L. Scheid (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) \u003cdiv\u003e\"In this interesting new book, Dobransky carefully explores the often contradictory institutional logics of community-based psychiatric care and offers fresh insights on how these competing views shape our fragmented system of community mental healthcare.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Eric R. Wright (professor of sociology and public health, Georgia State University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Dobransky’s willingness to question the currently received wisdom about the value of currently popular service approaches and his use of a rich dataset both attest to the book’s potential.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Russell K. Schutt (University of Massachusetts Boston) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eManaging Madness in the Community\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely read, presenting severe persistent mental illness (SPMI) and the delivery of community mental health in clear, understandable terms. Recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Provides important insights into the mental health system in the United States.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (American Journal of Sociology) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Provides important insights into the challenges workers and clients face in the mental health care system. Sociologists and mental health care professionals, including policy makers, will find Dobransky's work of particular interest.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Oral History Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e While mental illness and mental health care are increasingly recognized and accepted in today’s society, awareness of the most severely mentally ill-as well as those who care for them-is still dominated by stereotypes.  \u003ci\u003eManaging Madness in the Community\u003c\/i\u003e dispels the myth.  Readers will see how treatment options often depend on the social status, race, and gender of both clients and carers; how ideas in the field of mental health care-conflicting priorities and approaches-actually affect what happens on the ground; and how, amid the competing demands of clients and families, government agencies, bureaucrats and advocates, the fragmented American mental health system really works-or doesn’t.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of movies like \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Shutter Island\u003c\/i\u003e, most people picture the severely or chronically mentally ill being treated in cold, remote, and forbidding facilities.  But the reality is very different.  Today the majority of deeply troubled mental patients get treatment in nonprofit community organizations.  And it is to two such organizations in the Midwest that this study looks for answers.  Drawing upon a wealth of unique evidence-fifteen months of ethnographic observations, 91 interviews with clients and workers, and a range of documents-\u003ci\u003eManaging Madness in the Community \u003c\/i\u003elays bare the sometimes disturbing nature and effects of our overly complex and disconnected mental health system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKerry Michael Dobransky examines the practical strategies organizations and their clients use to manage the often-conflicting demands of a host of constituencies, laws, and regulations.  Bringing to light the challenges confronting patients and staff of the community-based institutions that bear the brunt of caring for the mentally ill, his book provides a useful broad framework that will help researchers and policymakers understand the key forces influencing the mental health services system today.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Tables\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. Logic and Constraint\u003cbr\u003e3. Diagnosis, Labeling, and Social Control\u003cbr\u003e4. Empowerment Practice, Practical Empowerment\u003cbr\u003e5. The Realities of Community Integration\u003cbr\u003e6. The Right Person for the Job: Fragmentation in Staffing and Worker-Client Interaction\u003cbr\u003e7. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559335162136,"sku":"9780813563084","price":24.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/managing-madness-in-the-community-the-challenge-of-contemporary-mental-health-care-paperback-softback-9780813563084","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}