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Autor/inn/en | Emerson, Robert M.; Pollner, Melvin |
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Titel | Contingent control and wild moments: conducting psychiatric evaluations in the home. |
Quelle | In: Social Inclusion, 7 (2019) 1, S. 259-268
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 2183-2803 |
DOI | 10.17645/si.v7i1.1788 |
Schlagwörter | Entscheidung; 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 |