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%T Contingent control and wild moments: conducting psychiatric evaluations in the home %A Emerson, Robert M. %A Pollner, Melvin %J Social Inclusion %N 1 %P 259-268 %V 7 %D 2019 %K clientization; field psychiatry; frontline decision-making; home visits; social control %@ 2183-2803 %U https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/1788 %X 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. %C MISC %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info