50 years after deinstitutionalization : mental illness in contemporary communities / / edited by Brea L. Perry

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910466008503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-78560-402-3
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Collana: Advances in Medical Sociology ; ; Volume 17
• Disciplina: 362.2
• Soggetti: Mental illness; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; 50 Years after Deinstitutionalization: Mental Illness in Contemporary Communities; Copyright Page; Contents; Editorial Advisory Board; List of Contributors; Introduction: Legacies of Deinstitutionalization through the Lens of Medical Sociology; Contemporary Issues and Calls for Mental Health System Reform; Contributions of Medical Sociology to Innovations in Policy and Practice; Macro-Level Perspectives on Systems of Care; Micro-Level Perspectives on the Role of Family and Community Ties; 50 Years after Deinstitutionalization: New Sociological Insights and Innovations; References; Part I: Taking Stock of the Past and Looking toward the FutureSame Problem, Different Century: Issues in Recreating the Functions of Public Psychiatric Hospitals in Community-Based Settings; Introduction; The Institutional Era and Its Discontents; The Decline of the Public Mental Hospital; The Community Mental Health Movement: Moving Hospitals' Functions and Services beyond Institutional Walls; A Structural Functional Theoretical Approach for Examining Deinstitutionalization; The Functions of State Hospitals vis-à-vis the Larger Society; Social Control of Deviance; Long-Term/Elder Care; Repositories for Persons Exhibiting Psychiatric "Symptoms"State Hospital Functions vis-à-vis Recipients of Care; Designing a Community Mental Health System; A Functional Analysis of Outcomes; ; The Social Control Function; The "Criminalization" of Mental Illness; Consequences of Failing to Recreate the Social Control Function; Structural Functional Assessment of the Deinstitutionalization Process; The Status of the State Hospital in 2015; A Case Example; Dorothea Dix Returns; Analyzing Major Social Interventions: The Value of Functional Analysis; Notes; References; "Forever Children" and Autonomous Citizens: Comparing the Deinstitutionalizations of Psychiatric Patients and Developmental...Introduction; Framings of Social Worth; Risk; Rights; Care; Conclusions; Notes; References; An Institutional Analysis of Public Sector Mental Health in the Post-Deinstitutionalization Era; Introduction; Background and Significance; Contradictory Institutional Logics and Public Sector Mental Health; The Logic of Cost Containment and Commodification; Conflict between the Logics of Commodification and Community-Based Care; Institutional Demands for Recovery; Conflicting Logics of Recovery and the Efficiency Demands of CommodificationThe Resurgence of the Logic of Social Control; A Framework for Understanding How Conflicting Institutional Demands Are Resolved; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part II: Community Reintegration and the Social Environment; Social Environment and Mental Illness: The Progress and Paradox of Deinstitutionalization; The Development of Public Mental Hospitals; The Failure of Public Mental Hospitals; The Process of Deinstitutionalization; Outcomes of Deinstitutionalization; Long-Term Consequences of Deinstitutionalization; Discussion
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume will examine deinstitutionalization's legacies approximately 50 years after reintegration began. It will highlight pressing issues around mental health treatment, social and health policy, and the lived experiences of those coping with mental illness that were or continue to be significantly influenced by deinstitutionalization reforms.