Integrity and Change: Mental Health in the Market Place

by Smith, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9780415141390
• ISBN10: 0415141397
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The restructuring of the welfare state in the last ten years has meant that many people working in education, health and social work services are preoccupied with the effects of the imposition of market values on the work they do. The twelve contributors to this book, including clinicians, academics and organizational consultants, explore experiences and dilemmas common to a range of settings. They ask a number of pressing questions and raise some crucial issues for debate, including: whether or not it is possible for people in the caring professions to work creatively and with integrity in the present climate; which strategies and ways of thinking may help combat demorilazation; and the possibilities for change and development.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
A Time to Think	p. 13
What Price Trust?	p. 22
References	p. 33
The Hidden History in an Idea	p. 34
References	p. 48
Counselling in Higher Education	p. 49
Re-Imagining the Organisation of an Institution	p. 66
Captains and Cricket Teams: Therapists and Groups	p. 83
Working with Abused Clients in an Institutional Setting	p. 99
References	p. 113
Human Responses to Destructive Regimes	p. 114
A Struggle Towards Health in Health Service Policy-Making	p. 138
Internal Space and the Market	p. 156
Excitement and Tension at the Edge of Chaos	p. 176
Index	p. 196
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