Full Description
Control forms the basis for much social work practice, yet the realities of how much control is exercised in everyday practice often remains hidden. Combining original research with critical analysis, this book reveals how ethical frameworks, agency and interaction influence decisions - and how control can produce paradoxical, unexpected outcomes.
Contents
Introduction: Virtuous authority? Power and control in practice
1. Theorising power and control
2. Control and community mental health practice
3. A virtual asylum? The various meanings of compulsion in the community
4. Experiencing Control - how Service users navigated CTOs
5. Enacting control - the purpose and practices of CTOs
6. Sense of an ending - deciding when to relinquish control
7. Practice paradoxes and (perverse) consequences
8. Reconciling Control
Reference List
Appendix: How the study was conducted
