Description
| Product ID: | 9780367722944 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health |
| Subtitle: | Knowledge, Power and Hope in an Age of Bureaucratic Accountability |
| Authors: | Author: Neil Armstrong |
| Page Count: | 180 |
| Subjects: | Research methods: general, Research methods: general, Society and culture: general, Anthropology, Psychological methodology, Mental health law, Mental health services, Society & culture: general, Anthropology, Psychological methodology, Mental health law, Mental health services |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book is an ethnographic exploration of mental healthcare, which uses both ethnographic research and personal co-ethnographic / co-authored narratives to show the experiences and limits of those bring treated for severe mental health issues, often in a hospital setting. Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health seeks to chart a new direction for research into mental healthcare, with the aim of creating the conditions for more productive interdisciplinary dialogue. People involved in mental health often fail to recognise how they are described by researchers from the humanities and social sciences, which inhibits productive collaboration. This book seeks to address this problem, by including clinicians and patients in the research process and by shifting attention away from power and knowledge and towards the organisational context. It explores how clinical thinking and behaviour, illness experience, and clinical relationships are all shaped by the bureaucratic context. In particular, it examines tensions between what we want from mental healthcare and how accountable bureaucracies actually work, and proposes that mental healthcare research should not just evaluate new interventions but should investigate new ways of organising. This book is written with a non-specialist audience in mind, as it is intended for all with a stake in mental healthcare research and practice. It is also for those with an interest in ethnographic methods, as a novel way of deploying ethnography, autoethnography and coproduced ethnography to address clinically important research topics. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-12-07 |
