Contingent control and wild moments: conducting psychiatric evaluations in the home.

Autor/inn/en	Emerson, Robert M.; Pollner, Melvin
Titel	Contingent control and wild moments: conducting psychiatric evaluations in the home.
Quelle	In: Social Inclusion, 7 (2019) 1, S. 259-268 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2183-2803
DOI	10.17645/si.v7i1.1788
Schlagwörter	Entscheidung; Soziale Kontrolle; Entscheidung; Psychiatrie; Soziale Kontrolle; Soziale Dienste; Psychiatrie
Abstract	When social control and social service workers go into the field, into the "native habitat" of some problem, a variety of tacit structures and controls that mark office work with its standardized documents and formal meetings are weakened or absent entirely. As a result, compared to office settings, social control work in field settings tends to become open, contingent, unpredictable, and on occasion even wild. This article provides a strategic case study of the distinctive features of social control decision-making in the field, drawing on observations of field work by psychiatric emergency teams (PET) from the 1970s. PET typically went to the homes of psychiatrically-troubled persons in order to conduct evaluations for involuntary mental hospitalization. This article will analyze the varied, situationally-sensitive practices these workers adopted to evaluate such patients in their own homes.
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2020/1