Trusting on the Edge : Managing Uncertainty and Vulnerability in the Midst of Serious Mental Health Problems

• Pubblicazione: Bristol : , : The Policy Press, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.2019; 614; 614/.08
• Soggetto topico: Trust; Physician and patient; Mentally ill
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): CalnanMichael; BrownPatrick
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TRUSTING ON THE EDGE; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Risk and trust in late-modern society; Late-modernity and the illumination of uncertainties; Strategies of managing vulnerability in the face of uncertainty: risk and trust; Atmospheres of trust? Various forms of 'hyphenated' trust; Overview of the book; 1. Investigating trust: some theoretical and methodological underpinnings; Risk, vulnerability and uncertainty; Conceptualising trust; Defining trust: a problem of knowing; Relating trust in people to trust in systems; Researching trust: epistemology and methodology ; Some central analytical foci2. Constructing knowledge through social interactions: the role of interpersonal trust in negotiating negative institutional conceptions; Three sources of negative institutional conceptions; Different formats and concreteness of knowledge; Trusting in mental health professionals: distinguishing the individual from the system; Conclusion; 3. Bridging uncertainty by constructing trust: the rationality of irrational approaches; Rationality as an obstacle to social analysis; Trust as necessary, appropriate and effective ; Dispositions and forming knowledge of others: habitus and trustConclusion; 4. Vulnerability and the 'will to trust'; Dependence, choice and trust; Luhmannian insights: choice, regret and attribution; Choosing or not choosing? Recognising agency amidst structures; The messiness of real world trust: trust and mistrust alongside one another; Vulnerability and a 'will to trust'; Conclusion; 5. The difficulties of trust-work within a paradigm of risk; Professionals in the midst of vulnerability; Professionals, morality and the trust-control dialectic ; The interrelatedness of trust across different organisational dimensionsVirtuous and vicious circles of trust; Origins of virtuous and vicious circles; A starting point for potential policy solutions; Conclusion; 6. Trusting on the edge:implications for policy; Overview of key themes; Policy implications: rediscovering trust; Paths for future research; Appendix; Methods; Design; Sampling and participants; Data collection; Method of analysis; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores issues central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust, linking abstract concerns to empirical analysis with interviews with service-users, practitioners and managers.
• Titolo autorizzato: Trusting on the Edge
• ISBN: 1-4473-0755-0; 1-280-38035-7; 9786613558268; 1-84742-890-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461200803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II