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@article{ Emerson2019, title = {Contingent control and wild moments: conducting psychiatric evaluations in the home}, author = {Emerson, Robert M. and Pollner, Melvin}, journal = {Social Inclusion}, number = {1}, pages = {259-268}, volume = {7}, year = {2019}, issn = {2183-2803}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i1.1788}, 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.}, keywords = {Psychiatrie; psychiatry; Entscheidungsfindung; decision making; soziale Kontrolle; social control; soziale Dienste; social services}}