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Contingent control and wild moments: conducting psychiatric evaluations in the home
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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,... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
psychiatry; decision making; social control; social services
Classification
Social Work, Social Pedagogics, Social Planning
Psychological Testing, Psychological Counseling, Psychological Methodology
Free Keywords
clientization; field psychiatry; frontline decision-making; home visits; social control
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 259-268
Journal
Social Inclusion, 7 (2019) 1
Issue topic
"Producing people" in documents and meetings in human service organizations
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed