As case management has replaced institutional care for mental health patients in recent decades, case management theory has grown in complexity and variety of models. But how are these models translated into real experience? How do caseworkers use both textbook and practical knowledge to assist clients with managing their medication and their money? Using ethnographic and historical-sociological methods, Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness uncovers unexpected differences between written and oral accounts of case management in practice. In the process, it suggests the possibility of small acts of resistance and challenges the myth of social workers as agents of state power and social control.
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Formation of Community Support Services
- 3. The Rise of the Case Manager
- 4. Strengths Case Management
- 5. Landscape for a Case Manager: The Carless Mentally Ill
- 6. Oral and Written Narratives of Case Managers
- 7. Money
- 8. Meds
- 9. The Helper Habitus: Situated Knowledge
and Case Management
- 10.
Conclusion
- Appendix A: Methods, Data, and Analysis:
A Critical-Realist Perspective
- Appendix B:
Continuum of Services
- Appendix C: Interview Schedule
- Notes
- References
- Index
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